Re: Converting GCC to compilation with C++

[Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>]

On Jul 13, 2004, at 3:31 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:

> > > > > > "Joe" == Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> writes:
>
> Joe> I think I'll let it go at that, as there's not much use in 
> starting a
> Joe> language war just yet.  That can wait until Tom Tromey asks us to 
> accept
> Joe> his C++ rewrite of the Java front end, gcjx.
> Joe> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gcjx/
>
> I've read this thread with some dismay, since most of the C++ features
> people want to reject (templates, MI, exceptions, operator
> overloading) are in fact used in gcjx :-/.

For what it's worth, not everyone wants to reject those features.  One 
of the main reasons I think C++ would be a better implementation 
language than C is that I'd rather use std::vector and std::list than 
varray or TREE_LIST or TREE_VECTOR.

But again, this strikes me as a fairly academic issue.  Irrespective of 
technical merit, I don't see a switch to C++ (or Java, or ML, or 
whatever) happening any time soon.

			--Matt