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GCC Moving To Use C++ Instead of C

Posted by kdawson on from the keeping-with-the-times dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CodeSourcery's Mark Mitchell wrote to the GCC mailing list yesterday reporting that 'the GCC Steering Committee and the FSF have approved the use of C++ in GCC itself. Of course, there's no reason for us to use C++ features just because we can. The goal is a better compiler for users, not a C++ code base for its own sake.' Still undecided is what subset of C++ to use, as many contributors are experts in C, but novices in C++; there is a call for a volunteer to develop the C++ coding standards."

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  1. C++? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    C++ is the most horrible language I've ever had to write code in. I think they should have sticked to pure C.

  2. 80's technology by toolslive · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    C++ is 80's technology, and as such filled ugliness that was considered sexy at the time. Just like 80s pubic hairdressing it's just too much to see the essence. Try to compare Haskell's polymorphism to C++ templates and you will get the picture. Anyway, to you really think 30 years of computer science since C++ could not come up with anything better? Why not take advantage of the fact that you are very late in taking up a new technology and skip a few decades?

  3. Re:so now I can't grep for functions by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You do realize that this is Unix and that quite a few people LIKE using the command line, with editors like emacs or vi, tools like grep and find and sed, with "plain" Makefiles and so on, right?

    Not everybody uses a GUI IDE. For that matter, not everybody WANTS to use a GUI IDE.

    Your IDE (sorry, editor) gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way you likes it?