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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] g++
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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:06:54 +0200
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> In order to degrade the quality of this thread--or is it
> to overload it?--does anyone have any current statistics on
> the real use of C++ vs. C (or anything else)?

i don't have any stats, but given there are a large number
of machines that run windows and a large number of
applications that run on it one can assume there's a
lot of C++ code out there.  this presumes that the authors
are either masochists (writing in C) or writing C++.

there are just some things you can't do in C on windows
(tooltips iirc) without a lot of pain, but it's relatively trivial
in C++.

i just don't want to see this poison [C++] spread, but i
agree with ron that without it a lotta people will not look
at plan 9 -- pragmatism, ick ...