On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Brandon Van Every <bvanev...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Marko Lindqvist <cazf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have been told that VisualStudio lacks several C99 features (and >> has incompatible implementation for some, I believe) simply because >> it's not even meant to be C compiler. It's an C++ compiler. > > I don't think "meant to be" is quite the right turn of phrase, since > it is a C compiler. Rather, as noted in that "wontfix" notice, > Microsoft feels that its customers are C++ centric. So they put their > development resources into that, and not C99. > > I must admit, C++ having far more users than C is an argument with > some weight. Especially in the game industry: C is done for some > things, but C++ is the primary resume skill. You may not care about > resume skills around here, but a lot of people feel that kind of > justification is important for what projects they work on. I have > wondered how "Freeciv is strictly C" might impede developer retention. > > One could argue that GNU is C centric, being obsessed with the ability > to bring up programs on all systems, no matter how obscure. Also, > most "advanced" languages that are not C++, like Scheme or Lisp or > OCaml or whatnot, have a much easier time talking to C.
Actually, GCC usually supports C++ features before they are implemented in Visual Studio. Take TR1 functionality for example. One thing it tradiotionally lagged behind was in code optimization, but even that has changed recently. -- Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa PhD Student and Teaching Assistant at Department of Information Systems and Computer Science IST/Technical University of Lisbon _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
