David G. Mackay wrote: > 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. > operating systems, servers like Apache, Sendmail, Postfix, things like Java JVM innards, those are written in C/C++