Re: Woo hoo ... a whole new set of compiler headaches!! :) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Woo hoo ... a whole new set of compiler headaches!! :)
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In response to Re: Woo hoo ... a whole new set of compiler headaches!! :)  ("Dave Held" <dave.held@arrayservicesgrp.com>)
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"Dave Held" <dave.held@arrayservicesgrp.com> writes:
>> I suspect most people here are already well aware of the 
>> advantages and disadvantages of C++.

> That's where we disagree.  In my experience, most C++ programmers 
> know C, but most C programmers only know C++ through second-hand 
> knowledge.  And this community has already professed a fairly 
> thorough commitment to C.

FWIW, I was doing development in C++ full-time for most of the 90's.
So it's not like I'm not reasonably familiar with the benefits.
And yeah, if we were starting from scratch I'd probably say C++ is
a good choice.  But the price of getting there from here is higher
than the value of being there, IMHO.
        regards, tom lane


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