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> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:09:09PM +0100, Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> > In short C++ objects are called "class" and may be used almost or exactly as a C struct. Largest improvement with C++ are variables within an object which fulfil similar functionality to a C struct may be private and only accessed with functions belonging to object.
> > 
> > Polyformism may also be an improvement there may for example be a function to move an object with different implementations depending for different object types. Polymorfism in C++ are however far as I understand not handled as in other object oriented languages, it is easy to screw things up.
> > 
> > I don't like C++ either but it is an improvement. I like ADA better.
> 
> Nobody prevents you from rewriting PCB in Ada ;-)
> 
> and yes I agree with you wrt Ada vs C++. But the CGAL library really
> seems very heavyweight. 
> 
> Half a million lines of include is a lot. Strange enough, the cgal
> package itself is reasonable, that's the development which is huge.
> 
> The dependency list (boost, mesa, gmp) and the list of files
> (https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libcgal-dev/filelist)
> make me cringe (for a start: what are these cmake files for?).
> 
>     Gabriel

I only had useful comments about programming language and have no idea yet what might be needed for geometry.

Nicklas Karlsson