Re: gEDA-user: C++ (was Re: interesting links)

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy Peters wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Randall Nortman wrote:
> 
>> C++ was a fantasically useful stepping stone from C, to bridge C
>> developers into the OO world.  Objective C might be better at this; I
>> don't know, as I never really used it much.
> 
> Of course on Mac OS X, Objective-C is the preferred language, so I've  
> had a bit of experience using it.
> 
> Once you grok the fullness of its message-passing architecture, it  
> really makes a lot of sense and is, to me at least, clearer and  
> simpler than C++.  It does away with a lot of the stuff that makes C+ 
> + unwieldy (like multiple inheritance).
> 
> For a project such as gEDA, though, the language choice is probably  
> dictated by the language used by the GUI toolkit.

and to the degree that you care about portability.  C is available 
everywhere.  So is C++ (or at least everywhere that makes sense).  That 
isn't always the case for some of the other languages.

-Dan





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