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From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: prevalence of C++ in embedded linux?
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:46:59 +0200
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To: "Leisner, Martin" <Martin.Leisner@xerox.com>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@eit.uni-kl.de>, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Leisner, Martin
<Martin.Leisner@xerox.com> wrote:
> If you're embedded device has a window system, than a language like C++
> is fine...But...

C++ is suited for much more than just windowing systems. A good
example is the GOLD project, a linker for ELF files. GOLD is a rewrite
of the GNU linker (ld). See also
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/04/gold-google-releases-new-and-improved.html.

Bart.