Author: Bo Persson
Date: 10:40:29 08/12/04
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On August 12, 2004 at 11:18:56, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >I think I made my opinion pretty clear in the paragraph Tord quoted. C++ (when >used as Bo Person's book is advocating) gives you all the penalties and >performance hits of a high level language, without any of the corresponding >benefits. Here is another guy (B. Stroustrup) who has the same view. It his probably his view originally. :-) Please read his paper "Learning Standard C++ as a New Language", where he shows how to write C++ that is both smaller and much faster than the corresponing C code: http://www.research.att.com/~bs/new_learning.pdf >If you want to use C++ as C with nicer syntax, then more power to you >(and Zappa will probably make that switch soon). That's a good start, but you will miss out on the benefits of writing proper C++. Bo Persson
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