Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:10:15 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: C++ and the kernel |
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I would like to rewrite the kernel in FORTRAN because this was one of the first languages I learned.
Seriously, the kernel MUST be written in a procedural language. It is the mechanism by which something is accomplished that defines an operating system kernel.
C++ is an object-oriented language, in fact the opposite of a procedural language. It is not suitable.
Many so-called programmers look at kernel code and see that a lot is written in 'C'. Then they think; "I can do this better because I know C++. Everybody knows that C++ is better than plain old C..."
If you really knew C++, you wouldn't even joke about putting it in the kernel.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Windows-2000/Professional isn't.
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