Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?

[Don Dugger]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

>Don Dugger <dugger at hotlz.com> writes:
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>>The fact is that all your c code will compile in c++
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>That is wrong.  To name just one example, C++ is much stricter about
>type casts than C is.
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I mean the constructs. Casting will not change the functionality or 
shouldn't.

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>>and the c++ compiler may optimize better then the c compiler.
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>I doubt it.  It is the exact same compiler with the exact same
>optimizer and the exact same code generator.  The only difference
>between gcc and g++ is the parser.
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Actually your wrong, first gcc is not the only compiler and a g++ 
compilers can optimize
at link time, as was point out to me by the guys that wrote the DEC c++ 
compiler. And the
point was that there's no less performance with c++, which your comment 
only reinforces.

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>>C++ and C are languages that are defined by ANSI
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>No they're not.  It may surprise you to learn that there is a whole
>world outside the USA which does not care one whit about ANSI.
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>DES
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I apologizes if you thought I was making any reference to nationality in 
that comment I
was only trying to say that c++ is not owned by a corporation and as you 
point out is subject
to the hole worlds views not just the interests of a small group of 
people who are only interested
in there own profits.

Don 8)