On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 10:03:12AM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi Anthony, > > And I don't particularly think it's much of a gain to say "You want > > access to dpkg's internals? Just use C++!". C++ is all well and good, > > but it's not *that* good. > > Hrm. I would have to disagree with you. Using object oriented > techniques certainly makes things easier to maintain, extend and debug. > Using object oriented "design patterns" (see any good book on OO design > patterns), for example, makes code much easier to understand and/or > implement.
Please don't go into the C++ vs C flamewar here, ... it is as possible to do bad and unmaintainable code in C++ as it is possible to do good and maintainable code in C or another not OO language. what you need is good design, not some magic language to write nice code. Friendly, Sven LUTHER
