Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 1999 14:48:04 +0100 (MET) | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: C++ in kernel (was Re: exception in a device driver) |
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On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Benjamin Scherrey wrote: > > Now... what Alan says about the difficulty of supporting it within the > kernel may very well be the case - I don't know. That said, its time to start > considering the future. C++ cannot be ignored by the kernel forever. The > language just offers too much over plain C and was designed specifically with > large-scale systems programming in mind.
IF we should consider a change to something that offers something better than C, Objective C would be a far saner choice; it's easier for C-programmers to grasp, it's far more pure and it's at least 99% standardized.
But personally, I feel that object oriented programming in a kernel just isn't a good idea. Too much inheritance that can break. And what can break, will break...
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