Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:00:19 +0100 | From | Adam Sampson <> | Subject | Re: Object Oriented Linux |
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On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 03:19:56AM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote: > I'm sorry, Victor but this one gets under my skin. If people want to > write kernel code in C++ well good for them. All it requires of the > kernel developers is to take the darn C++ keywords out of the headers. > About an hour's work for someone who has a license for /bin/vi. > > This is an ideological language war masquerading as a technical and > supportability issue.
You could make exactly the same argument for including support for writing kernel internals in any other language.
I think the issue here is that if the kernel developers allow people to write kernel code in C++, it will require other kernel developers to know C++; keeping Linux to one language makes it easier for people to modify each other's code.
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Adam Sampson azz@gnu.org
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