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

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:01:46 +0100 (MET)

> 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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