[openbeos] Re: Support of C++ for writing Drivers

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:12:00 +0100 (MET)

I don't have anything against C++, I like it btw.
Just I don't feel it in kernel land. Maybe I'm just old fashioned or 
something... I'm used to do things in asm-assisted C that's all.

En réponse à Axel Dörfler  <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 
> > life easier. Nothing strange now that Windows CE crashes so often 
> > :)))
> > C++ is not a language for that, it's too convoluted IMO. We need 
> > something 
> > simple for kernel land, something that makes it easy to know which 
> > func each  
> > byte belongs to.
> 
> C++ isn't that bad at all :-)
> Have a look at http://www.eros-os.org/ which uses C++ everywhere in the
> 
> kernel.
> Although C++ maybe has some more traps than C, it's not a bad language
> 
> for this stuff. In fact it's better suited than most other OO 
> languages.
> 
> Adios...
>    Axel.
> 
> 
> 
> 





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