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Seeking Multi-Platform I/O Libraries?

Posted by Cliff on from the input-and-output-on-your-OS dept.

An Anonymous Coward asks: "I'm just getting ready to plunge into a new project, and joy of joys have been given complete freedom when it comes to the implementation language - so long as the program will build and run on both x86 Linux and Windows. Now, I don't need a GUI, this is systems stuff only (processing binary executables in fact, so lots of bitfiddling and big nasty algorithms over hairy data structures) so pretty much all I need are standard IO libraries. C is currently at the top of my list..but what other language should I be looking at? I'm happy to learn a new one, and have the go ahead to do it..like I say, they want absolute speed. Can someone suggest a better language? C++ is out, it does come with a speed hit (using C++ properly anyway, not as a souped-up C). If I'm gonna take the speed hit, I may as well consider something like Ocaml which might let me claw the speed back with better algorithms and data structures.."

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  1. -1, Flamebait by JabberWokky · · Score: 4, Funny
    C++ is out, it does come with a speed hit

    [ in my best announcer voice ]:

    Let's get ready to RUMBLE!!!

    --
    Evan

    --
    "$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
  2. Use C by mccalli · · Score: 5, Funny
    Looking for an IO library standard across platforms?

    #include <stdio.h>

    Says it all really.

    Cheers,
    Ian

  3. wow by sinserve · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your "speed" priority, and the binary processing bit, got me almost sold, and then
    I saw O'Caml!!

    You quiche eating wanker, how COULD you forget assembly? Isn't that what programming is
    all about? And WHY are you comparing C to O'Caml, a fine assembly macro language, to
    shity ML dialect used by equally hard-wanking mathematicians and abstractly thinking
    creatures? If these wankmaticians knew how the world operated, they would not
    have invented recursion let alone APPROVED of inductions as a sane, corner stone
    princible in their so called "art". Induction is only possible as long as the
    the "counter" register can hold your index, and recurssion is the crackwhore narcessistic
    twin sister of iteration (there is nothing she does, iteration can't do with
    a well placed label and a jump.)

    Listen to me son, read Quine, Boole and DeMorgan, get the manual to your processor,
    and "script" at the level of the ONE TRUE ABSTRACTION LAYER.

  4. One Word: by brunes69 · · Score: 3, Funny

    QBasic.