From:	nostra AT city DOT ac DOT uk (Mark Lewis)
Newsgroups:	alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,rec.games.design,rec.games.programmer
Subject:	Re: C or C++
Date:	20 May 1997 10:06:05 GMT
Organization:	City University, London
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On 20 May 1997 00:41:55 GMT, Alex Kain <syntaxlogic AT earthlink DOT net> wrote:
> What are the advantages of programming a CRPG in C++?  After comparing
> compiled versions of the same game in DJGPP and using Allegro, the C file
> is only half the size as the C++ file!  Is it really worth it?

If the code is already written in C then compiling it as C++ is a waste of
time.  If you're writing it from scratch then the advantages of using C++
(as well as better type safety) are basically the advantages of using an
object-oriented methodology and should be laid quite nicely in any
literature on O-O design.

	Mark.

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