Subj : Re: C++
To   : Dr. What
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Nov 10 2019 11:41:09

  Re: Re: C++
  By: Dr. What to Digital Man on Sat Nov 09 2019 06:43 pm

 > -=> Digital Man wrote to crow <=-
 >
 >  DM> C++ is definitely not "slow" by any measure, it's as "close to the
 >  DM> hardware" as C but you do get a bit more overhead in your compiled code
 >  DM> (compared to straight C).
 >
 > Actually, C hasn't been "close to the hardware" since PDP days.
 > See https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

"Close" is relative. Other than Assembler, I know of no programming language that is "closer to the hardware" than C.

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