C or C++

[Shriramana Sharma <jamadagni@gmail.com>]

Hello.

I am writing a library and wondering whether to write it in C or C++. 
Previously I knew only C but now I got introduced to the many 
conveniences of C++ I am loth to give them up. I also feel C++ is a 
cleaner language than C (for whatever reason).

OTOH I am thinking maybe if I write in C many more programmers will be 
able to use it - C programmers as well as C++ programmers, whereas if I 
write in C++ only C++ programmers can use it (i.e. if the API contains 
any C++-specific items [or even if otherwise?]).

I would like the list's opinion on whether it is worth sacrificing the 
advantages of C++ to capture more "clients".

A voice inside tells me -- Qt and KDE are pure C++, yet they are among 
the hugest-used (if there is such a word) libraries... But another voice 
tells me -- there is GTK, GNOME and so many other libraries which I do 
not know which may be having many users precisely because they are in 
pure C...

So I don't want to be like the frog in the well (who did not know there 
was such a thing as an ocean) and so I am asking you.

Namaste.

Shriramana Sharma.