GCC Moving To Use C++ Instead of C

Posted by kdawson on Monday May 31, 2010 @08:58PM 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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Re:so now I can't grep for functions by shutdown+-p+now · 2010-06-01 05:33 · 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?