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SubjectRe: OFTOPIC: C vs C++ (was Re: C++ in kernel)
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
> C++ is close enough to C that the "close to the hardware" part is equally
> possible. OTOH, C++'s "higher level" means that the language might be doing
> a lot of things behind your back. Efficiency freaks like Linus and the
> other head hackers won't accept that, but other people might find it quite
> an acceptable tradeoff for the added features. BTW, C9x will add a lot of
> C++ish features... YMMV.

And many (all?) of these C9x features are already supported by gcc/egcs.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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