Re: writing drivers using C++

On Sep 6, 6:30 am, phil-news-nos...@xxxxxxxx wrote:

But you will find a lot of people whose skills you need for doing driver
writing won't write code for such a kernel. C++ is a more abstract kind
of language. People that work at lower levels on things like hardware
tend to also be people that work better without using abstractions. I
know I am one of them; abstractions hinder my programming, not help, in
most cases. It just depends on the application's ability to be represented
in an abstract way. A web site is easy to abstract. A piece of hardware
that I need to interface directly to bare metal with does cannot.

This was precisely the same argument used to object to using C to
write drivers (rather than assembly) and it's wrong for precisely the
same reason. The idea that C++ hides things from you that are more
apparent in C is a myth. You can make things incomprehensible or clear
as day in either language with equal ease or difficulty.

DS



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