[DGD] Why C instead of C++

[Felix A. Croes]

Marc Spoorendonk <marc at freud.et.tudelft.nl> wrote:

> I was coding some stuff (a stringlib) in C++ (I'm fairly new to C++) and i
> wondered why the dgd driver doesn't use C++ for its strings and objects.
> Especially the operator overloading seems really useful to me.
>
> I'm sure that you have your reasons for this but i don't know them. Could
> you please tell me what the disadvantages of C++ are in this case?

C++ is not as well-defined as C.  No two implementations of C++
compilers are the same.  This makes C++ a bad choice for writing
portable software.

If I were to write DGD from scratch now, I would still use C rather
than C++.  However, I would use ANSI C rather than K&R C.

Regards,
Dworkin