On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Ryan Sommers wrote:
Greetings all... I'm about to undertake a major software engineering project and I can't decide between C or C++ and was wondering if I could get some input from the community.As part of this project I'm going to need to make use of at least 2 C libraries (OpenSSL and ncurses) and the application must be compatible with the standard range of Linux/UNIX compilers and operating systems. All of these signs make me sway closer to just doing it in C. However, one strong point always seems to pull me back to C++, constructors and destructors. Constructors and destructors can offer so much in the way of memory leak avoidance. Of course, each language can leak memory like a sieve if used improperly. However, for statically allocated structures semi-automatic garbage collection can be a nice cushion. Anyway, without getting into too much detail. Anyone had to make this choice on a project? What were your thoughts in retrospect? What would you have done different, what would stay the same... PS For this project things like polymorphisms and inheritance really aren't needed.
If you would like to use C but want some sort of memory handling, I can recommend using the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) in /usr/ports/devel/apr which uses memory pools. Although I have not used it before, there is also the Boehm Garbage Collector found in /usr/ports/devel/boehm-gc. Seán -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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