20 May
2005
20 May
'05
10:14 p.m.
Instead of writing structured C++, pure C will be a little more lightweight. It's a good thing to know.
That's not true..if I write some C and compile it with g++ or gcc it will be the same. I almost only write structure C++ - it's a paradigm called "mixed mode" programming - the OO part is used solely for encapsulation - basically replacing stuff like this in C: typedef void* Object; Object new_Object(); void free_Object(Object); with: class Object { Object(); ~Object(); }; gains of structured c++ vs structured c: no freaking memory management fiascos... STL types (linked lists, hash tables, maps, strings) faster sorting (yup) Anyway, I'm really off topic... 8) Just always want to speak my case for c++