Re: C or C++ for FOSS/linux?

On 2006-12-28, Beowulf <beowulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

C or C++, which is better to learn and improve upon for a goal of
contributing to open source projects, writing linux drivers, helping with
linux and FOSS in general?

C is the only one that meets all of those requirements. Linux
drivers can't be written in C++.

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