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

Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@xxxxxxxxx> typed

On a sunny day (Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:31:26 -0600) it happened Beowulf
<beowulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<pan.2006.12.28.22.31.26.629544@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

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.
C++ is not a language but speech disability.

You seem to have a serious thinking disability, if you meant this
statement serious...

Stroussup could not really program, that became clear to me after
reading his book. It needs too much text, to many :: and overloading
sucks and is for dummies.

no comment...

Of course MS uses it, that is why MS is so bloated.

The reason, why MS C++ applications are bloated, is not C++ itself. MS
simply never understood, how to design libraries. Therefore the MFC
library is nearly unusable. However, C++ in combination with the VCL
library from Borland or the QT Toolkit is a very elegant and fast
language, even on the "bloated" windows system.
The Windows API is even worse than MFC, although it has been written in
your favourite language C.

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