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If you want to go OOP from C, what would you choose?

• randomsearch 12y ago
  Personally, I'd choose one from many languages. I'm not convinced C++ is a good choice for user-level applications. Maybe for the performant parts, or for compatibility. Perhaps other factors like skillsets came into play...
  • danmaz74 12y ago
    We're talking about a port from C. Porting from C to C++ is much easier than porting from C to any other language...
    • randomsearch 12y ago
      I didn't think it was a straight port... But, yeah, it's going to be easier. It's also an opportunity to consider another language that might improve productivity, reliability etc. in the future. Just wondering. Didn't mean to start a language war :-)
      • danmaz74 12y ago
        No problem, I'm not interested in a language war either - even more so because I haven't used C++ in 5 years :) Just wanted to point out that if you have a C code base, it is way easier to port to C++, which isn't a bad language at all.
• zem 12y ago
  back then c++ was probably the best bet, but today i'd at the least take a few weeks to investigate whether D was viable.