On Tuesday 05 March 2002 11:28 am, Kenneth Mays wrote: > > Fact is, managers may understand that the code in C++ is easier to read and > maintain.
This I must disagree with. Most of the time, I think that C++ is harder to read *and* maintain. Well-written C++ is probably easier to read and maintain, but it's harder to write C++ well, and just telling everybody to switch compilers won't help at all -- it's likely to obfuscate the code more. If you want the benefits you've got to re-train everybody to use C++ *well*, which doesn't seem to be what was being suggested in this case. Besides, it's not C++ that provides whatever questionable benefits it provides; it's OO methodology which can come in handy, and there are more elegant OO solutions than C++ around. > There are reasons to use C++ because of the software engineering > methodology and beliefs of its superioriy of C. If that real or not is up > to you and the rest of the world. > > Ken Mays > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
