On 23 Jul 2010, at 18:02, Paul Eggert wrote:
I recall Paul wrote the C skeleton, and one reason for not supporting
compile as C++ is that he did not want to work with C++, in
addition to being complicated somehow.
Although I contributed to the C skeleton, I am not its original
author;
I believe that honor (or dishonor) belongs to Robert Corbett.
I had only in mind the period when it was decided to not support the C
skeleton compile as C++ option officially. Before that, compile as C++
was maintained for a period of time unofficially, I recall.
But you're right that I run screaming away whenever C++ is mentioned.
From my (admittedly distant) point of view, every time C++ comes up,
its standard seems to have mutated in some even-more-complex way.
I would prefer someone else to be the C++ expert here, just as I
prefer someone else to be expert in PHP, Cobol, and JCL.
So that was the reason to not support it: letting one focus on the
language one is expert on.
Hans
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