Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!otc!mikem
From: mikem@otc.oz (Mike Mowbray)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Opinions sought (again)
Message-ID: <304@otc.oz>
Date: 31 Jan 88 08:28:43 GMT
References: <353@trigraph.UUCP>
Organization: OTC Development Unit, Australia
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In article <353@trigraph.UUCP>, les@trigraph.UUCP (Les Gondor) says:

 > How easy is C++ to use in developing a large (>10000 lines) program?

Considerably better than C. We recently completed at project of about
30,000 lines quite comfortably.

 > Do any special problems appear when maintaining a large program written
 > in C++?

You have to watch out for deep include-file nestings which cause cpp to
throw up, but that is not necessarily specific to C++. The other thing
to watch out for is in choosing the arguments to constructors carefully,
to reduce the number of other classes that each class must know about.

> In what sort of systems have you used C++ as the primary implementation
> language and what prompted you to choose it?

Protocols and switching systems, although still fairly small-potatoes. We
will be enlarging our sights very soon though.


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