Subj : Re: C++
To   : Dr. What
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Nov 10 2019 11:41 am

 Re: Re: C++
 By: Dr. What to Digital Man on Sat Nov 09 2019 06:43 pm

> -=> Digital Man wrote to crow <=-
>
>  DM> C++ is definitely not "slow" by any measure, it's as "close to the
>  DM> hardware" as C but you do get a bit more overhead in your compiled code
>  DM> (compared to straight C).
>
> Actually, C hasn't been "close to the hardware" since PDP days.
> See https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

"Close" is relative. Other than Assembler, I know of no programming language that is "closer to the hardware" than C.

                                           digital man

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