Shriramana Sharma wrote: > 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. It depends upon what you want to do with the library. If it's likely to be useful to other libraries, there's a strong incentive to use C, or at least to provide a C API (the standard implementation of GLU is written in C++, although the public API only uses C). -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
