Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?

2006-04-15 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Something occurred to me just now. I've been looking at the summer of code page, where I noticed the Rewrite cvsup in C entry. When Perl was removed from the FreeBSD base, the general notion was to rewrite any Perl scripts in sh or C. Why is it that C++ is not used for our programs? The C++

Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?

2006-04-15 Thread Christer Solskogen
Benjamin Lutz wrote: Something occurred to me just now. I've been looking at the summer of code page, where I noticed the Rewrite cvsup in C entry. When Perl was removed from the FreeBSD base, the general notion was to rewrite any Perl scripts in sh or C. Why is it that C++ is not used for

Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?

2006-04-15 Thread James Bailie
Benjamin Lutz wrote: Why is it that C++ is not used for our programs? The C++ compiler is in the base and built by default, and the OOP paradigm is a nice one, that many programmers, especially the younger ones (like me :) ) are probably more familiar with than the tricks and techniques

Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?

2006-04-15 Thread Thierry Thomas
Le Sam 15 avr 06 à 23:37:26 +0200, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : 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. And also /usr/lib/libstdc++* can be removed on small systems.

Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?

2006-04-15 Thread Joao Schim
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:13:29 +0200 Benjamin Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something occurred to me just now. I've been looking at the summer of code page, where I noticed the Rewrite cvsup in C entry. When Perl was removed from the FreeBSD base, the general notion was to rewrite any Perl