LCA: Lessons from 30 years of Sendmail

I don't want to get into it with you. I'm reading your other responses, and I just can't see how a discussion with you could provide any value to this site, or me. I don't disagree with the gist of your opinion, just the strident tenacity with which you state it. Furthermore, I'm annoyed that you* mentioned and promoted boost::array in the thread, and then when I responded to about it, you claim not to have used it and discount it's relevance. I consider that a bait-and-switch tactic, and an annoyance.

In any case, everything that has ever needed to be said or not said about "C vs. C++" has been said elsewhere, and since LWN doesn't allow thread promotion/demotion by voting, I think I'd like to stop. I certainly think good C++ code is often a positive improvement over good C code, but I disagree with you only in the (implied?) claim that C++ should completely supplant C. It hasn't, because C++ still has problematic issues. The fact that there has been an explosion of languages since 1991 (when I learned C++), and that *many* of them interface easily with C, but almost *none* of them interface easily with C++, perfectly illustrates the issue. History will show that C++ tried hard, but failed, to be a "better C" in *all* cases (as you seem to claim).