Subj : Re: OO compilers and efficiency
To   : comp.programming
From : Jon Harrop
Date : Thu Jul 28 2005 02:24 am

Chris Sonnack wrote:
> Or is it presumptuous to assume most C++ programmers were C programmers?

I heard that most C++ programmers still are C programmers. ;-)

>> These have all the problems of C, they're verbose....
> 
> *C* is verbose?  Most of the driver bits I've seen are pretty terse.

C is a very verbose language in general.

>> I maintain an application written in this "C++ and C-style C++" way,
>> it's awful and it's very often troublesome to change.
> 
> Okay... so what's your solution to time-critical code bits?

You could write the whole thing in OCaml and rely on its superior
performance. ;-)

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