On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:00:27PM +0800, joel realubit wrote:
> hi!
>
> how good is C++ support on gcc? is it completely ANSI/ISO compliant? does it
Yes, it is completely ANSI/ISO compliant. In fact, last I heard, The
GNU C++ compiler was the ONLY compiler in existence that fully
supported X3J16 standard C++ (maybe Inprise/Borland's compiler also
does now, not too sure about it).
Microsoft Visual C++ doesn't even come close to complying with the
standard by the way (wotta surprise).
> have any caveats? i'm doing research for a project and i could go either
> straight structured/procedural with C or object-oriented with C++. any info
> would be greatly appreciated!
If you want to do object-oriented work, I would stay away from C++,
though. IMNSHO, C++ is such a big, bloated language with too many
features that only serve to confuse the people studying it. Even
Bjarne Strostrup himself admitted: "Inside of C++ a small, clean
language is trying to get out," and some people might add: "Yes, and
that language is Java." :) C++ is quite probably one of the best
examples of what Frederick Brooks called the second-system effect...
Honestly, while Java is far from being perfect, it's the best we got
at the moment, and with GCJ now part of the GNU compiler collection,
accusations that it's slow, interpreted language should go away.
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