Re: Why C++ is vastly superior to C

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Subject	Re: Why C++ is vastly superior to C
Date	2011-05-17 06:46 +0100
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On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:07:11 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:

> Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:
>>I normally just use RAII as the reason.  Everything else else can be 
>>kludged in C, but not RAII.
> 
>   RAII helps to release resources even in the case of exceptions.
>   But C does not have exceptions. So RAII is not needed for this.

C does, however, have (early-) return, break/continue/goto, and longjmp().
All of which create headaches for resource management, i.e. either needing
to add many nearly-identical copies of any clean-up code or just foregoing
the use of any of the above mechanisms.

The basic OOP concepts of objects and classes (with virtual methods) can
be implemented easily enough in C (look at a C GUI toolkit such as Xt or
GTK), but RAII is the point at which you have to decide whether to go to
C++ or go without.

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  Re: Why C++ is vastly superior to C "Balog Pal" <pasa@lib.hu> - 2011-05-16 17:26 +0200
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