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

Don Dugger dugger at hotlz.com
Sat Apr 22 21:26:54 UTC 2006


Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

>Don Dugger <dugger at hotlz.com> writes:
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>>Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
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>>>// comments are neither better nor worse than /* */ comments, and
>>>they have been available in C for seven years now.
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>>That's pure opinion and one that I haven't head.
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>The availability of // comments in C99, which is now seven years old,
>is fact, not opinion.
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>DES
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Wrong part of the statement I was talking about it being better or worse.
And again you your missing the point. What does this have to do with why
one would use c rather then c++? Or the myth that c++ has poor performance
in comparison to c.

Don 8)


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