[CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

David G. Mackay mackay_d at bellsouth.net
Mon Jun 15 20:14:41 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:35 -0700, lincohn john wrote:
> Just curious, why not just use C/C++? thanks in advance !
> Lincong

This is a personal opinion, but C++ seems to be an exercise in
masochism.  C is basically a high level assembly language.  Neither are
all that portable.  Granted, for sheer speed, C is probably as good as
you'll get.  Speed just isn't as big a factor these days.  Who knows, if
they'd had the processing power available today back in the 80's, maybe
we'd all be using pascal p-code systems.

Dave





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