Hello.
I am writing a library and wondering whether to write it in C or C++.
Previously I knew only C but now I got introduced to the many
conveniences of C++ I am loth to give them up. I also feel C++ is a
cleaner language than C (for whatever reason).
OTOH I am thinking maybe if I write in C many more programmers will be
able to use it - C programmers as well as C++ programmers, whereas if I
write in C++ only C++ programmers can use it (i.e. if the API contains
any C++-specific items [or even if otherwise?]).
I would like the list's opinion on whether it is worth sacrificing the
advantages of C++ to capture more "clients".
A voice inside tells me -- Qt and KDE are pure C++, yet they are among
the hugest-used (if there is such a word) libraries... But another voice
tells me -- there is GTK, GNOME and so many other libraries which I do
not know which may be having many users precisely because they are in
pure C...
So I don't want to be like the frog in the well (who did not know there
was such a thing as an ocean) and so I am asking you.
Namaste.
Shriramana Sharma.
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