We're talking about a port from C. Porting from C to C++ is much easier than porting from C to any other language...

I didn't think it was a straight port...

But, yeah, it's going to be easier. It's also an opportunity to consider another language that might improve productivity, reliability etc. in the future. Just wondering. Didn't mean to start a language war :-)

No problem, I'm not interested in a language war either - even more so because I haven't used C++ in 5 years :)

Just wanted to point out that if you have a C code base, it is way easier to port to C++, which isn't a bad language at all.