On Sunday 16 April 2006 01:34, Christer Solskogen wrote: > > My first guess is that it's a habit. People dealing with the FreeBSD > > source code are used to C, and therefore use that for their apps. If it's > > only that, there'd be no good reason for not writing a tool like cvsup in > > C++, right? Or is there a more technical reason? > > If you really want you can code whatever tool you need in c++. I guess > cvsup was rewritten in C because the developer understands C, and not > C++ (or the task of rewrite cvsup in C++ would be harder)
A not insignificant reason (IMO) is that C++ is much slower to compile.. Also, gcc didn't use to be (ie when FreeBSD was started) a good C++ compiler. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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