> Have you a preference for using c++ in netman?

The frontend is a complex piece of software using lists. Some parts
were complicated to code even in Lazarus Pascal: imagine the
complexity required to achieve the same thing in C.

Edward

> On 22/11/2015, Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:
> Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> This mechanism as certain tendency make C++ developers go bezerk with a
>> particular type of strong rage, but it's entirely usuable in practice,
>> although more work than having it all laid out for oneself.
>
> In the interest of fairness: This 'more work' of course translates to
> 'more opportunities for getting stuff wrong' and there's the additional
> problem of "get away with it"-ism, especially in closed source software:
> At least some people will - either based on principle[*] or because it
> saves them work or they at least believe it will - break every 'softly
> imposed' rule the believe to be able to get away with breaking. Hence,
> unless the language/ compiler enforces access restrictions to
> supposed-to-be internal-use only members of a data structure, people
> will ignore them.
>
> [*] I've actually encountered people who refused to comply with
> technical documentation on the ground that they aren't taking orders
> from strangers ...
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