Re: advantages of C

From: Kevin Cline (kcline17_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: 30 Jan 2004 08:25:21 -0800

Willem <willem@stack.nl> wrote in message news:<slrnc0tivl.1g0f.willem@toad.stack.nl>...
> osmium wrote:
> ) The point is often made that C++ is a better C, and I agree. But I don't
> ) know of any book that one could use to learn, in a reasonable fashion, this
> ) "better C". Somewhere about chapter ten they introduce classes and the
> ) world collapses. How does the reader skip this chapter and finish reading
> ) chapters 11 though 20 without a great sense of unease?
>
> C++ is 'better' than C *because* it has classes.

And constructors and destructors and templates and exceptions and
inheritance and virtual functions and the STL and operator overloading
and ...

In C++, it's easy for me to write code that is obviously correct. In
C, life is harder. I have to manually make sure that there is a free
for every malloc, and an unlock for every lock, instead of just coding
a constructor and destructor. I have to handle error returns after
every function call, instead of handling them all together in a single
catch clause. I have to use the preprocessor, cut and paste code, or
cast to void* instead of writing template classes. I have to replace
operator expressions with function calls if I switch from a built-in
type to a user-defined type, instead of overloading those operators
for my type. I have to worry about overflowing char[] buffers,
instead of using std::string. Correctly used, C++ is a great tool for
keeping bugs out of code.

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