On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Jinx wrote:

>>> to any extent are C++ and VB, and the only one that gets used for OO
>>> development is C++.
>
>> I would narrow it a bit down: The only OO language that gets widely used
>> when run-time performance is very important is C++.
>
> I know next to nothing about C or C++. Why would Bjarne Stroustrup
>
> http://www.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.html
>
> say -
>
> "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot ; C++ makes it harder,
> but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."

Probably because C++ is more terse than C and at the same time allows 
overloading *any* operator and more. As an example, you can declare the 
'+' operator to actually be '-' when used with certain types of data. 
Additionally, in C++ the compiler is supposed to 'guess' which function 
definition applies best to what the programmer said if the latter is not 
fully qualified to a namespace. The result can be very interesting.

Peter
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