I advise you to read "The Art of Unix Programming" by Eric Steven Raymond http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch14s04.html#cc_language In this book you can find more about the Unix philosophy, and arguments on why C++ is wrong.
>----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- >Van: Brian Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Verzonden: vrijdag, december 28, 2007 07:33 AM >Aan: misc@openbsd.org >Onderwerp: Linus about C++ > >Hi. > >This is partly not OpenBSD related, and yet again someone pointed out that >perhaps a lot of bug could be avoided using C++. I am writting my big paper >on C and C++ and would like some comments from people who are experts. > >Off-list is okay, but maybe others are interested as well. > >I found this statement of Linux Torvalds about C++ online: > ><snip> >C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot >of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much >easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if >the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, >that in itself would be a huge reason to use C. > >C++ leads to really really bad design choices. You invariably start using >the "nice" library features of the language like STL and Boost and other >total and utter crap, that may "help" you program, but causes: > > - infinite amounts of pain when they don't work (and anybody who tells me > that STL and especially Boost are stable and portable is just so full > of BS that it's not even funny) > > - inefficient abstracted programming models where two years down the road > you notice that some abstraction wasn't very efficient, but now all > your code depends on all the nice object models around it, and you > cannot fix it without rewriting your app. > >In other words, the only way to do good, efficient, and system-level and >portable C++ ends up to limit yourself to all the things that are >basically available in C. And limiting your project to C means that people >don't screw that up, and also means that you get a lot of programmers that >do actually understand low-level issues and don't screw things up with any >idiotic "object model" crap. ></snip> > >Is he right? > >Best regards, and forgive me if I am to much "off topic".
