[Xastir-dev] Topic: Supported Platforms, Xastir-NG

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 07:53:14PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 
> > So it looks like we've got two votes for C/C++ so far.  OO would
> > make things a lot cleaner, so so far C++ is the winner.
> > 
> > I don't have a lot of experience with C++, but it's close enough to
> > C that I've been able to do some C++ hacking here and there.  I
> > wouldn't object to going with C++.
> 
> Regarding C++, I seem to remember something about problems with
> certain libraries from system to system, but those libraries are
> things the true-blue C++ guys tend to use a lot of.  STL maybe?  Is
> this something we can avoid entirely in order to run on more
> platforms or will it be a continual problem?  What about other C++
> libraries, are they fairly compatible across platforms?

STL is pretty much solid now.  8 years ago when we started Xyce we had a 
lot of trouble with it, but relied on it heavily anyway.  Now it's hard
to find a compiler that does it wrong, but when you find one you usually
have to pay a lot for it.

STL rocks.

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