gEDA-user: C++ (was Re: interesting links)

[Andy Peters]

On Aug 30, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Randall Nortman wrote:

> C++ was a fantasically useful stepping stone from C, to bridge C
> developers into the OO world.  Objective C might be better at this; I
> don't know, as I never really used it much.

Of course on Mac OS X, Objective-C is the preferred language, so I've  
had a bit of experience using it.

Once you grok the fullness of its message-passing architecture, it  
really makes a lot of sense and is, to me at least, clearer and  
simpler than C++.  It does away with a lot of the stuff that makes C+ 
+ unwieldy (like multiple inheritance).

For a project such as gEDA, though, the language choice is probably  
dictated by the language used by the GUI toolkit.

-a