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[OT] Quick intro to C++ for a Python and C user?

Neil Cerutti neilc at norwich.edu
Wed Dec 21 09:04:54 EST 2011 
On 2011-12-20, Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> writes:
>> Oops. I should have mentioned this is for embedded systems
>> programming so templates in general (and STL in particular)
>> are probably off the table.
>
> Templates are how C++ does generics and I'd expect them to
> appear in be used in embedded programming as well as elsewhere.
> They can bloat up the code if you're not careful (if function f
> has several parameters, you can end up with a separate,
> specialized copy of f for every combination of types that f is
> called with in the program), but in the typical monomorphic
> situation they don't add any overhead.  I'm not sure about the
> situation with STL.  Anyway, templates aren't terribly hard to
> understand.

Moreover, if you don't plan to take advantage of templates or
inheritance, then you could as well write C++ compatible C and be
pretty happy with the results.

-- 
Neil Cerutti
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