Re: Does Bill Gates know about the DDK regarding C++?

IMHO, C++ has no business in *driver* development. Keep in mind that the
purpose of C++ is abstraction to relieve _application_ programmers from
certain "low-level tasks". Well low-level is exactly what you want when
programming a hardware driver, so abstracting from the low-level makes no
sense at all.

FWIW, Microsoft *is* using C++ in some driver architectures - look at the
AVStream/BDA samples, they're in C++ - and they SUCK. If you look at the
BDA drivers released by some manufacturers, they're quite buggy, and I put
part of the blame on the use of C++...

When I started on AVStream/BDA, I quickly switched to plain C, and it made
development quite a bit easier for me. I prefer to "know" each memory
allocation and freeing, and every driver programmer should. Applications
may leak memory, drivers can't afford to.

Regards,«
--
Robert Schlabbach
e-mail: robert_s@xxxxxxx
Berlin, Germany

<440gtx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1118142023.472620.125070@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I was wondering how much Bill Gates keeps in touch with the happenings
> in the DDK area. Is he aware the next generation DDK (WDF) will have a
> C interface rather than C++? As a true visionary, it would be
> interesting to know his thoughts regarding this decision. The reason I
> ask is from a developer standpoint it seems as if someone is asleep at
> the wheel as nothing has happened for 15 years and nothing seems on the
> horizon. Yet all other Microsoft API's I am aware of capitalize on C++
> features. Just curious.



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