On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:12:12AM +0000, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote:
>
> I simply love BB, but there just one thing i dont like, it were written
> in C++. Is there any plan to rewrite in C ?
>
flames aside, I have read some really bad C++ code in my time. blackbox is not
your typical C++ app. Brad did not use templates heavily, there is no
operator overloading. The templates that are there make sense.
I am terribly sorry C++ was your first language, it was at my college too. How
we can ruin so many peoples lives like that is beyond me. While I like C++,
I would never put it on someone as a first langauge. It is way too complex to
keep up with it and to learn what a program is at the same time.
Give the code a chance, I have found that I can now add features for people in
anywhere from an hour to a day, depending on how big what they want is.
Objects used wisely can be very powerful and bb shows this. I have worked on
window manager and gui projects in C because authors hated C++. You end up
with a lot more code and a lot less design beauty. A Window is an object, why
not treat it that way?
