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

2006-04-18 Thread mail.matt.mcdonald
I agree that if you're worried about buffer overruns, etc then managed code is the way to go. C#2.0 especially seems to be more and more viable as an all out c++ replacement since it seems to have an analog to all of the major language features of c++, plus a lot of added syntactic sugar. The

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

2006-04-18 Thread Oliver Fromme
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 scripts in sh or C. Or awk. In