Re: [Tinycc-devel] Any hope for small c++ compiler

[Jean-Claude Wippler]

address@hidden wrote:

> C++ is _very_ complicated, so it will never be supported in TCC. 
> Adding a subset
> of C++ is doable (classes with simple inheritance, operators), but I 
> think it
> would not be very useful since you would not be able to compile "real 
> life" C++
> projects.
>
> Another idea would be to add dynamic objects and strings as in 
> Javascript to
> ease scripting, but I need to be persuaded that some people will use 
> it :-)

My vote would be to keep C as it is, and TCC right along with it.

After a decade of C++, I've all but abandoned it for the multi-level 
"scripting + C" approach as design model (pick any scripting language, 
there are half a dozen mature ones out there), and have never looked 
back in the last few years.  Trying to use C++ (and Java) for 
everything is like trying to build a house with grains of sand.  To 
each his own, but as a once strong advocate of C++, I can only hope 
that TCC will not stray from its path.

My €.02 ...

-jcw