[Bf-committers] C++ Migration

[joeedh]

Douglas Toltzman wrote:

>On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Austin Benesh wrote:
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>>Are we ever going to consider a massive migration from C to C++? C is
>>quickly being outdated. What are we going to do when it goes obsolete? I
>>believe this is one of the more serious issues on our hands.
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>If C becomes obsolete, then C++ must also become obsolete, since C++ is a
>superset of C.  You can have C without C++, but you can't have C++ without
>C.  It would seem that C would be the least common denominator, making it
>the safer choice.
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>Douglas Toltzman
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Do we have to get into this?  The advantages/disadvantages aside, I've 
finally accepted that C is the language to use with Blender, I've 
written 2000+ lines of code, and I don't want to have to do a rewrite ;)

No, just kidding, but seriously I don't think that a rewrite in C++ is 
the right thing to do right now.  It's a little hard to explain, but 
that's what I think. 

I guess what I'm afraid of, is that, say, users will wait for a year for 
a "new" blender, but what they get will be a slower and less functional 
version then they had before.

joeedh