Terry Lambert wrote: > > Kenneth Culver wrote: > > Why are you being so sarcastic? Everyone here is assuming that it's harder > > to write C++ code, so you should only use it if necessary. It isn't > > necessary to use it for something like a daemon. > > Because that underlying assumption is false, and I'm making > fun of it. > > If you don't use C++ specific features, you're just writing > C code anyway.
Not exactly. There are semantic differences even in the code looking just like C. > It's not harder to write C++ code that uses the special features > of the language; it may be harder for a programmer unfamiliar Yes, it is. To make things right with these features you need to write a few times more lines of code. This gives you a few times more opportunities to make mistakes and requires a few times more of testing. > There are a lot of benefits to the use of C++ that outweigh > the downside, particularly if you are a company paying for Sure, as long as your project grows big enough, the benefits start outweighing the troubles. > something, and you want to invest the value in the code base > instead of investing it in people who can walk out the door > and sign with your competition tomorrow. Makes no difference in this respect. You have the codebase anyway and you need people who understand it anyway too. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
