John Carmack and Sepples

Today, I do firmly believe that C++ is the right language for large, multi-developer projects with critical performance requirements, and Tech 5 is a lot better off for the Doom 3 experience.
--John Carmack

http://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/statuses/26560399301

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The whole idea that "C is faster and less bloated than C++" myth started in the early 90s when personal computers became fast enough and had enough memory to run C compilers but were still too small to run C++. In the late 70s computers didnt even have enough RAM to run a C compiler at 4k with a 1mhz CPU(Apple II/TRS-80). By the late 90s these memory limitations all but disappeared and you really cant measure any difference between C and C++