[geeks] Go Apple....

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> And isn't nearly every piece small fast C code also small fast C++ code?

>From what I've read of his books, that is a statement that would make
Stroustrup reach out from behind the compiler and smack your fingers.

If you mean that statement as in "will compiler with a C++ compiler", the
answer is "usually".  There are valid C programs that are not valid C++
programs.

However, that's not C++ code.  It's C code compiled with a C++ compiler
(and thus with name mangling and everything else).  C++ done -correctly-
is -not- C with objects, it's object-oriented C.  A lot of "C++ code" is
an insult to the language, crafted by writing perfectly good blocks of C
and then inserting classes.  To do so is as much of an insult as it would
be to write a large block of multipurpose Scheme code as a single non-
recursive function containing massive nested conds with a bunch of
homegrown for-loops.

So, yes, the code will probably compile, but you're missing out on all the
idioms and features that make C++ a unique language.


DISCLAIMER:  I think C++ is a pile of crap, but at least let it be a piece
             of crap on its own terms--it's far more humiliating that way.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
  "gnu: we aim to fuck up everything with the potential to not suck"
                                                   --alex j avriette