On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
IOW, C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourags you to use simple and direct constructs.
Not to mention try finding two C++ compilers that support the same language features. C is a known quantity. C++ depends on whos compiler you use and what class libraries you use. Trying to make those things work crossplatform is not an easy task. (Harder than it is in C at least.)
A number of years ago, a programmer who will not be named (and is not me), tried to port Perl to C++. It was a disaster. He found that every compiler handled something differently.
If you stuck to one compiler, it might work. But trying to get GCC to work like MS C++ or Borland C++ or whatever is just asking for pain.
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