Kubuntu a dist in crisis?

[Mark Greenwood]

On Wednesday 28 Oct 2009 22:27:03 Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:43:22 am Martin Laberge wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 October 2009 05:23:16 Chris Jones wrote:
> > > > I'd argue that point, C, if well written, will beat C++ any day.
> > >
> > > I disagree . A really good C++ programmer can write code just as fast as
> > > C. But the point is you have to know what you are doing. C++ is a
> > > superset of C, so use the features of C++ when they are appropriate, and
> > > those of C when they aren't. The problem is it is probably easier to
> > > write truly terrible (i.e. slow) C+ than it is to write bad C.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > 
> > c++ Would be almost as efficient as C ...
> > 
> > but overhead of c++, can't be removed,
> > then never as efficient than C.
> 
> There is no "overhead" with c++ compared to c. c++ is a superset of c.
> 
> 

You mean apart from the overhead of getting your head around the mangled and unreadable syntax in the first place ;) ?

Mark