Re: Using C++ in GCC is OK

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot org>]

On 06/03/2010 12:51 PM, Robert Dewar wrote:

> Steven Bosscher wrote:
>
> > Indeed. It is, well, perhaps not surprising, but quite annoying (to me
> > at least) that a possible move to C++ as implementation language of
> > GCC is so much bigger news than all the amazing amounts of work done
> > in the last few years on things like LTO, the vectorizer, IRA, etc...
>
> And indeed you have to worry a bit that productive work on critical
> areas like this may be siphoned off developing, reviewing and testing
> changes from C to C++ whose benefit may often be much less than the
> work involved in doing them.

I know someone who works at a National Lab in the US (that will not be 
named) who had his management decide to rewrite a rather crucial (to 
that Lab's core business) 6+ million line Fortran system into C++.

He told me that 11 years ago.  When I met him again in February, I 
related to him that I referred to that project as "the one with its 
return on investment date firmly in the 22nd century" to *my* management.

He replied that his management currently doesn't believe it will have a 
return on investment at all - they've written it off as a valuable 
"learning experience".

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