Re: Wanted: C or C++ compiler for Intel 8031/8051 ***

I think the real question is: are you a programmer?

Abstraction ability is *not* synonomous with power. Assembler is able to do anything that any high(er) level language can do - but would you honestly try to claim that assembler and C have comparable abstraction capabilities?

C++ is not more powerful than C, but C++ absolutely *does* have greater abstraction ability - in general, a C version of a C++ program will be larger, more complex, and require more programmer effort to write and maintain.

It is a fact that the first C++ implementations compiled to C as an intermediate step ... however, modern C++ compilers no longer do this because the semantic differences between C++ and C now are so great that translation to C negatively impacts performance of C++ code.

George

cfront broke down when they tried to add exceptions to C++. Doing exceptions without at least a bit of compiler support is just too difficult. Which is another way of saying it introduced unacceptable overhead.