> That approach has successfully turned a pile of spaghetti C pre-processor code into a managable secure server application deployed across Aix, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux and Windows NT/2000.
I have also weitten and deployed what you’re denigrating as “preprocessor spaghetti code” across the above exact platforms, with a lot of success.
Perhaps we work(ed) at the same company.
Yes it was tighly coupled with Make that took care of selecting the proper set of files to compile and link based on the platform.
The anti-module crowd seems to want to have it all, which to me is the same anti-exceptions and anti-RTTI crowd, and in that case modules are indeed dead-on-arrival.