Re: C vs C++ for GTK

["Fernando Apesteguía" <fernando apesteguia gmail com>]

On 11/25/07, Benoît Dejean <benoit placenet org> wrote:
>
> Le dimanche 25 novembre 2007 à 00:03 +0100, Tomas Carnecky a écrit :
> > Patrick wrote:
> > > is C++ to complicated?
> > C++ is more complex than C, and thus harder to fully understand.
> >
> > > Is C going out of date?
> > No, it's still being used for lots of projects.
> >
> > > Am I limited with C?
> > No, there are very few features in C++ that are hard/impossible to
> > imitate in C, but you usually won't need those for small projects.
>
> You can also do it in assembly if you have time.
>
> > What people prefer mostly depends on their taste. I do C, my brother
> > does C++, I can't say why that is.
> >
> > Since you worked with python which is object oriented I would imagine
> > going with C++ will be easier for you during the first weeks.
>
> I've switched gnome-system-monitor to C++ and i'm very happy with it.

Two questions about the sentence above:

- What improvements or benefits did you find to switch to C++?

- Is it going to be a C++ application from now on?

BTW: excellent application

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