On 08/01/2010 07:09 PM, John Bokma wrote: >> One thing that comes to mind is that it's much easier to distribute C >> libraries than C++ libraries. > > In the beginning of C++ there were programs that just converted C++ to C > (frontends). At least that is how the C++ compiler Acorn sold worked. > So I don't think your argument was much true back then.
No, he is still right. Each C++ implementation did name mangling differently leading to "C" libraries that had incompatible names and signatures. Also each frontend could have generated incompatible vtables and other C++ structures. So C code generated by one C++ frontend could not easily call C code generated by another C++ frontend. So the same arguments that are made about C++ now were just as valid back then when C++ was merely a fancy preprocessor. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
