My advice on implementing stuff in C:
My advice on implementing stuff in C:
Posted Oct 15, 2010 19:40 UTC (Fri) by Ed_L. (guest, #24287)In reply to: My advice on implementing stuff in C: by chad.netzer
Parent article: Russell: On C Library Implementation
"But its not low level."To a certain extent its a circular argument. As others have observed, if you want to do system level (low level) programming on *nix, then you will ultimately end up calling libc, which libraries like glibmm admittedly do a wonderful job of wrapping. For the most part. But for that small part they don't, I've yet to find a substitute for just calling libc (or a syscall) directly. And for me that's one of the beautiful things about C++: its not dogmatic, and allows one to write grotty Fortran when nothing else will do.
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