Re: [bug-grep] search.c clean-up

[Elliott Hughes]

> A separate issue is making the decision as to which apps are worth
> rewriting in C++, vs. just pushing forward with what's there. E.g.,
> I dunno that I want to put a lot of time into redoing gawk in C++.
> Grep is a smaller program, though.

it's not like the whole program would need rewriting. that's the 
advantage of Stroustrup's compatibility tradeoffs: we can just rewrite 
bits as they cause us trouble or are getting rewritten anyway for other 
reasons.

RAII is reason enough to use C++ on any program more complicated than 
/bin/true.

--
http://www.jessies.org/~enh/