Hi all -- let me fan the flames a bit on this topic and point out
a very interesting paper on the subject of OO programming by Les Hatton.
The title is "Does OO Synch with How We Think?", IEEE Software, May/June
1998. Basically, the conclusion the author comes to and provides evidence
for is that object-oriented programming results in more coding errors and
each error takes long to fix. The reason he provides is that object-
oriented programming requires much greater dependence on the developer's
long term memory (human memory and NOT RAM :-)) which ultimate lead to
more errors and by extension they are going to take longer to fix.
Now, I caveat the above with that Les' study was done before the
wide use of the Standard Template Library (STL). In fact, STL was not used
in C vs. C++ comparison study.
When deciding to go with C++ (vs C), the author recommends you
determine if you get a high degree of code reuse ( GUI development has
benefited greatly from this). Otherwise, go with C.
Enjoy,
Chris
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On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Calin A. Culianu wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Ken Emmons, Jr. wrote:
>
> > Hi Adam, > > I am using both C and C++ in my project. I think that
> hte reason why more people don't use C++ is that it is a pain in the
> butt to get working. Also, C++ is a lot more liberal about things like
> using malloc and free when doing object declaration in functions, etc.
> And malloc and RT don't really mix too well. With RTlinux you
> basically have to either do kmalloc in the init_module() or write your
> own memory heap allocator. Basically you use static objects for RT.
> Also, C++ is pretty strict, so when writing things like IO drivers,
> you have to cast the heck out of your data in order to read and write
> memory and the like. I am only using C++ because of the pass by
> reference operator, which I use in my API to pass a reference to and
> IO variable that the function will operate on. I may use objects in
> future api's but they are all functions now. I think the Real time
> programing paradigm makes it more difficult to use higher level tools
> such as OOP jsut because you need to be more ! aw! > are of what is
> going on at a hardware level.
>
> Hey regarding your using C++ solely for the reference type.. why not just
> stick to C and use pointers instead?
>
> -Calin
>
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