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

STL has no place in the kernel. it assumes allocations always succeed and
upon failure, throw c++ exceptions. that just doesn't work in the kernel at
all.

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"Don Burn" <burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Actually, I was trying to make it not a flame war. Note, I cautioned
> against C++ but fully acknowledged people do it. I will emphatically
> argue against STL in the kernel. You can use C++, but you need to
> understand impacts for you and for people who pick up the code in the
> future.
>
> I did not mention that WDF is written in C++ because it was specifically
> relavent. As I said a good expert can do it, and this is their choice,
> particualarily if you have a team in place. Now I could have mentioned,
> that because of earlier statements about WDF being written in C++ I know
> of a consultant who has switched to the language without understanding the
> implications. His kernel code which was weak but ok, has now gone to
> dog***.
>
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> "Robert Marquardt" <marquardt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Mark Roddy wrote:
>>
>>> Don forgot to mention that WDF is written entirely in C++, except of
>>> course for the exposed C api for us mere mortals. I rest my case.
>>
>> You are right. This is again a flame war.
>> The original question was about APIs.
>> APIs hould stay C APIs because C++ has no language agnostic interface.
>>
>> I personally dislike C++ for the very reason others praise it.
>> The reason is "C++ is the richest language of all". This is precisely the
>> problem. An average programmer does not master C++ fully resulting in bad
>> programs.
>> Java, Delphi and C# are popular becasue they all have less language
>> features than C++ allowing average programmers to master them.
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