On 1/22/07, Thomas Hruska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And, you are quite right, I've noticed that Linux programmers seem to
> have this complete refusal to use C++ for anything and use only C. Even
> if they didn't use classes and templates, the extra features such as
> function overloading and stronger type checking would make their lives
> significantly less painful. (And the C++ compiler emits more error
> messages, which can find bugs at compile-time instead of run-time - I
> don't know about you, but I'd rather the compiler caught the error on my
> local computer than have the app. crash in the wild and never hear about
> it).
I know of several prominent Linux applications that are written
entirely in C++. Maybe the usual command-line line tools like grep and
sed and cat aren't, of course, but C++ is pretty much the way for
bigger applications these days (especially KDE applications).
-- Brett
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