On: How can C Programs be so Reliable?

[bengl3rt]

This is one of the biggest reasons Linus Torvalds refuses to re-write the Linux kernel in C++ even though he is repeatedly pushed to do so... in C++ a whole bunch of things outside the file (templates, operator overloading) can make it so that what you're looking at doesn't do what you think.

In C, what you see is what you get. :)

[burgerbrain → bengl3rt]

For definitions of "repeatedly pushed to do so" that mean "asked on occasion by language trolls on the mailing lists who aren't even kernel devs". ;)

[tbrownaw → bengl3rt]

    #define int double

[0x12 → tbrownaw]

There is a special place in hell for you.

Had me laughing though :)

[exDM69 → bengl3rt]

Remember that if you want to use C++ in kernel development, you'll only get a small subset of C++ because there's no runtime system to rely on. Exceptions are one example of this.

Without exceptions, the advantages of C++ are not that great compared to the hassle it needs to get running in kernel mode like dealing with name mangling, static/global constructors, etc and hassling with compilers.