Re: To C++ or not to C++

From: Cesar Mello (cmello_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/24/05

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To: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>

    Go for C++ and keep your C APIs hidden.
     Automatic resource acquisition, the standard template library and exception
    handling work great and will allow you to write very clean code.
     If you haven't done this yet, buy a copy of "The C++ Programming Language"
    by Bjarne Stroustrup and "C++ Coding Standards" by Herb Sutter, that changed
    my life drastically. hehe
     In the other hand, if you have seen MFC, forget everything you know as C++
    and go buy those books.
     []
    Mello

     2005/6/24, Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>:
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > Ryan Sommers wrote:
    > >
    > > Anyway, without getting into too much detail. Anyone had to make this
    > > choice on a project? What were your thoughts in retrospect? What would
    > you
    > > have done different, what would stay the same...
    > >
    > No matter what kind of project I did after the C++ hype was over it was
    > in C++ with as little as object orientation as possible just to make use
    > of the advantages compilers offer for C++.
    >
    > You need one or more interfaces to plain C libraries.
    >
    > You should see pretty fast where you better switch to C++ as long as you
    > keep this clear line to C libraries always intact.
    >
    > You also should draw a clear line if your programs will be called from
    > others. Draw the same clear line between C and C++ to avoid confusion
    > and stick with plain C as much as possible.
    >
    > Never forget, many of the object orientated principles also work with
    > plain C.
    >
    > Erich
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