C or C++?

[Bill McGonigle]

On May 27, 2005, at 11:48, Jim Kuzdrall wrote:

>     The stipulations were: 1) use Linux; 2) use C++.

Sounds like they want well-debugged code.  99.99 % of the time the STL 
classes are better than ones you'd write on a 1-off basis, both in 
terms of being debugged and in terms of performance.  The Army doesn't 
want its tank being unable to target because of a bug in your String 
class.

I'm not sure what you'd gain aside from image size by going pure-c.  
You can still do most of the bad things you can do in C in C++ if you 
want to.  C++ was sold too early - I still avoid it when I can due to 
the hells compilers put me through in the early 90's.  Well, that and 
good scripting languages.

-Bill
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