On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 07:53:14PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: > > > So it looks like we've got two votes for C/C++ so far. OO would > > make things a lot cleaner, so so far C++ is the winner. > > > > I don't have a lot of experience with C++, but it's close enough to > > C that I've been able to do some C++ hacking here and there. I > > wouldn't object to going with C++. > > Regarding C++, I seem to remember something about problems with > certain libraries from system to system, but those libraries are > things the true-blue C++ guys tend to use a lot of. STL maybe? Is > this something we can avoid entirely in order to run on more > platforms or will it be a continual problem? What about other C++ > libraries, are they fairly compatible across platforms?
STL is pretty much solid now. 8 years ago when we started Xyce we had a lot of trouble with it, but relied on it heavily anyway. Now it's hard to find a compiler that does it wrong, but when you find one you usually have to pay a lot for it. STL rocks. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "It's so simple to be wise: just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." --- Sam Levinson _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list Xastir-dev@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev