From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Nizette Subject: Re: prevalence of C++ in embedded linux? Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:14:40 +1000 Message-ID: <1217650480.3546.94.camel@moss.renham> References: <1217281654.3546.16.camel@moss.renham> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1217281654.3546.16.camel@moss.renham> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Embedded Linux mailing list On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 07:47 +1000, Ben Nizette wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 11:43 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just curious -- how many folks are working in C++ in their embedded > > linux work? > > I hang out on AVRFreaks - an AVR and AVR32 support forum - quite a bit. > I personally think C++ is the language of the devil but I'd say that > around 50% of the people I talk to on 'freaks think otherwise. It's > certainly the language of choice. Having said that, I would appear to be quite wrong. Of course, I only see people's language of choice on a support forum when it doesn't work as they'd like. From those numbers I got the 50% figure. A quick poll [1] doesn't even almost agree, though admittedly the sample group isn't huge yet. Interesting. --Ben. [1] http://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=473243#473243