Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 11:38:04 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Bas Hamstra wrote:

> >Both are extremely useful: for example, UNIX is written in C, and ... (I
> >was going to be fair and impartial here, but I couldn't think of
> >anything popular that's written in C++).
> 
> Wait a minute :)  Speed and efficiency are extremely important for chess
> programs. Yet... One of the *fastest* chess program is written in pure C++
> (Junior).

AFAIK, Junior doesn't use any of the STL features, and is written very 
carefully to avoid anything in C++ that will produce inefficient code.  
People who write C++ usually don't want to restrain themselves like
that.

FWIW, Groff, the GNU replacement fro the Troff/Nroff package, is also 
written in C++, and it also carefully avoids any expensive C++ features.

> You don't *have* to create and destroy all over.

You can't even dereference a pointer in C++ without being sure it wasn't 
overloaded by some class that is called deep inside the libraries you are 
using.