[Liblas-devel] Why las2ogr based on OGR C API?

[Mateusz Loskot]

On May 17, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Martin (OpenGeoMap) wrote:
> Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>> I believe there is no room for core changes like migration to  
>> GObjects or any other frameworks than standard implementation of C/C 
>> ++ Programming Languages and C/C++ Standard Libraries.
>>
>
> obviously. There a lot of work behind liblas by now.
>
> I only wanted to say that it use C++ in not more modern than use C.  
> they
> are both valid

Agreed. I'm not saying C is old neither that software written in C.
C language is alive and there is a lot of modern software written in C.
I'm saying that C and C++ are different programming languages.
For libLAS core, we've chosen C++.

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