[openbeos] Re: Support of C++ for writing Drivers
- From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:26:39 -0500
>> 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.
The issues that Be brought up in the newsletter had to do with
linking with certain C++ libraries to provide things like new and delete
in the kernel.
Anyway. This is a dead issue...
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