Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Why use C++? Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:10:09 +1200 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <9a5othFfkpU4@mid.individual.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net tqS947pWWDiuZNfputCNyQqRMaKx2Yzc3hkvgDeTnv/Y8brIWX Cancel-Lock: sha1:9uEXv0HPx9ZQaquB11cJqIqF3RA= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101021 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c++:8519 On 08/ 7/11 09:00 AM, Miro wrote: > I've made the title too provocative. What I mean is, why use C++ for > small (> 1000 lines ) coding jobs? > It doesn't make much sense to me as... Use whatever you feel comfortable with for the job at hand. I had to write two filters last week, one to convert some C declarations to XML and another to convert the XML to code. I wrote the former in C++ because I had the tools to parse C declarations in my library and I wrote the latter in PHP because of its simple XML and xpath handling. -- Ian Collins