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From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: prevalence of C++ in embedded linux?
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:50:46 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Marco Stornelli
<marco.stornelli@coritel.it> wrote:
> Like Linus Torvals said "...C++ is an horrible language" :)

Some C++ language features are indeed not very elegant from a
language-theoretic standpoint. But that doesn't matter when writing
embedded software -- what matters is that C++ allows to make source
code a lot more readable than the C programming language. And if you
don't like the overhead introduced by features like exceptions or
RTTI, you can still pass -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti to gcc.

Bart.