A trying C++ experience (why compare dropped C++).
Tamarai Dinesh · Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands · 1994
Compare is an acronym for \Compiler generation for parallel machines".Its main objectives are to build compiler components in such a manner that they can be mixed and matched to develop compilers for new languages and new machines.It was decided to use C++ in this project, in preference to C, for most of the major components that are to be integrated together.This report summarizes the various opinions for-and-against favoring C++, the technical problems, and the subsequent standardization problems which e v entually resulted in dropping C++ in favor of C. In order to make a reasonably coherent document, we concentrate on issues with respect to mapping the intermediate representation language (f SDL) to C++.