On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Philip Brown wrote: > > a) limited hardware/OS David Greene <greened@eecs.umich.edu> wrote: > That's exactly what C++ is designed for! The zero-overhead rule makes > sure this isn't a problem. Believe me, C++ is not, not, not slow, > and memory is not an issue. In fact, C++ and the standard libraries > sometimes run _faster_ than C (compare qsort and std::sort). Even Java > does pretty well these days with HotSpot and its ilk. C++ is useless if your target platform has no C++ compiler available, or only broken C++ compilers. Samba and Apache are examples of software that can't be written in C++ and still support all of the platforms they support right now. -- Sam Couter | Internet Engineer | http://www.topic.com.au/ sam@topic.com.au | tSA Consulting | OpenPGP key available on key servers OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C
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