[ale] Language Jihad!

[ale at FultonGreen.com (Fulton Green)]

Just one caveat to an othewise reasonable defence of C++ ...

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:00:00PM -0400, Leonard Thornton wrote:
> I like C, but I sure as hell would not want to maintain the systems I have 
> out right now if I had to do it in C code.  C is great for small standalone 
> projects, but rapidly turns into spaghetti when implemented in very large 
> scale, multi developer systems.

In theory, it is possible to implement object-oriented concepts in C (see
the source code for the Xt widget interface and Xaw widget libraries). It's
obviously easier in C++, but may possibly incur a performance hit on systems
with not-so-new compilers (and also gives you "more rope to hang yourself
with").
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