C or C++?

Bob Bell bbell at macroped.com
Sat May 28 12:13:01 EDT 2005


On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 05:19:18PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> In the case of C++, you have a class that overloads + as a concatenation 
> operator. Additionally, the resultant variable c is expandable. In C, one 
> must make sure that a sufficient sized array is allocated for the result. 

Said another way: C++ has extra features to do stuff for you,
"automagically".  C makes you specify exactly what you want to happen.  

What you choose may depend on which of those descriptions matches what
you want for a particularly project.  For instance, there's a reason
most OS kernels are written in C.

    -- Bob



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