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[Elizabeth M Smith <emsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/17/2010 7:19 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Rivera, Rafael
> <rafael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>    
> > Hey Olaf,
> >
> > Glad to hear you made it home in time! I think last we all spoke, we
> > needed a license before code could be committed. I'm sure that's on
> > Garrett's long TODO list.
> >      
> Ok. I remember C was chosen for the engine. What's the rationale
> behind this decision?
> C++ seems to make more sense to me. It has no problems with safe
> strings and memory/resource management.
>
> Olaf
>
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As we discussed during the summit and is mentioned on the wiki:

   * Few dependencies
   * Fast
   * Small
   * Binding facilities for most high level languages are common

The ability to tie a C library into anything and everything is the 
biggest reason to use C over C++, using and binding to C++ libraries 
(especially in most languages - they tend to be written in C) is a real 
headache - actually beyond a headache, most times it's just a recipe for 
failure.

Thanks,
Elizabeth Smith