Messages in this thread | | | From | Marty Fouts <> | Subject | RE: Linux kernel modules development in C++ | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:56:59 -0700 |
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I suspect that this discussion belongs off-list, because it apparently comes up frequently.
But an observation from a Linux-Kernel "outsider":
Multilanguage developement (meaning using more than one language in the product) makes any product harder to develop. Because Linux is in C originally for good reasons, it should probably remain in C until and unless such time as a significant reason for a rewrite arrives.
Since Linux is trying to be, in some sense, "the last best Un*x" (apologies to various people,) it makes sense that it should be written in "the last best procedural language."
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