Re: [DotGNU]random question

[Rhys Weatherley]

On Saturday 08 February 2003 05:46 am, CH Gowri Kumar wrote:

> Just curious to know the reason :)

Rhys hates C++.  No other reason. :)

Seriously though, in the runtime engine I wanted to keep total control over 
everything that was happening, for performance reasons.  With C, what you see 
is what you get.  With C++, lots of other stuff can be going on behind the 
scenes and it can be difficult to spot and fix.

While there may be a few things (e.g. ILCoder) that might be a little nicer in 
C++, it can easily turn into the dark side: once you start down that path, it 
can very quickly dominate everything.  "Well, since I'm using it here, I 
might as well use it over there too".  I chose to keep things pure C, to 
reduce the temptation.

On the compiler side, treecc brings in enough OOP/AOP to split things up and 
make it manageable, and so there is little need for full-blown C++.

Cheers,

Rhys.