Kirk, A favor, if you did know either which would you suggest learning first ?
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 18, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > Linus has his reasons, some of which are actually technical and relate to > the unique requirements of the Linux kernel. > > Have you written at least a few hundred klocs in both C and C++? I'm sure > that David has and I agree with his statements 100%, perhaps with one > caveat - C++ is a much bigger language: the more complicated features like > templates can be complicated to use and we tend to mostly avoid them. Our > C++ code looks mostly like C with judicious use of classes, RAII, > exceptions, etc. > > Kirk Wolf > Dovetailed Technologies > http://dovetail.com > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Shane Ginnane <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:40:11 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >> >>> In fact, I find it difficult to fathom why anybody >>> would still write C code when C++ is such a superior language. >> >> I seem to recall some fella named Torvalds having his say about this a few >> years ago. >> People (no, not Dave) keep coming up with a plaintive "why ain't the >> kernel written in C++ ... ?" >> >> Comes back to the old adage of "right tool for the job". >> >> Shane ... >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
