David Brown wrote:
C is a much easier language to implement. C++ on the other hand, probably not much different. But C++ is a lot more popular, so more possible revenue to motivate people to work on compilers.
And C++ doesn't do much of the "dynamic" stuff that makes compilers work so hard.
For some reason, I think people are also turned off by the incremental development. Somehow, they associate incremental compilation with an interpreter, and think that it will be slow.
No, the problem is that most people's view of compiler technology for the past 15 years was Visual C++. And Visual C++ sucked rocks for a *looooong* time.
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