Following is an edited e-mail response from somebody whom was on one of the
original C++ committees.........
I'll take his word for it......
Drew Northup, N1XIM
Subject: Re: which is better?
"If the code has to have any serious interaction with hardware, C is better
and
was design as a virtual machine. It the program has larg complicated
structures, then C++ make the design and implementsation much easier, but
does
not mean their will be good performance. If performance is really nedded, C
with link assembly is fastest."