Re: Compiling C++ modules

Michael Poole
2006-04-25T18:52:45Z

Avi Kivity writes:

> Avi Kivity wrote:
> >
> > [avi@cleopatra linux]$ grep -r out.*: . | wc -l
> > 10446
> >
> Not to mention:
>
> [avi@cleopatra linux]$ grep -rw goto . | wc -l
> 37448
>
> How many of these leave something out? how much time is spent
> deciphering the code when something goes wrong, or is even suspected?

Probably fewer cases and less time than you suspect, respectively.
Just as C++ gives you tools, C does too, but far more important than
language tools is the discipline used when writing code: discipline to
think through the code, to structure it rationally, and to reuse the
rational structures that others have devised in the past. C++ gives
you well-tested helper classes to manage object locking. Linux gives
you its own well-tested examples of known and tried design patterns.

Michael Poole