Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Timothy Weber wrote:
> 
>> But I wonder if the old cfront would still be "better than plain C" for
>> the right person and the right project.  Surely it's easier to use
>> out-of-date C++ than to implement vtables, etc. directly in C.
> 
> Very likely. If I thought about doing something like this, I'd probably
> have a good look at cfront. Making it work is probably more efficient than
> collecting and writing a lot of library code that provides some of the
> functionality it probably already has.

Exactly!

I remember when C++ first arrived for the PC.  I had independently 
(ignorantly) developed classes and inheritance in C, and was starting to 
work with virtual functions too.  I jumped at the chance to let the 
compiler handle those things for me.
-- 
Timothy J. Weber
http://timothyweber.org
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