Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: What if? | Date | Sun, 05 Dec 2004 19:43:05 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> said: > On Dec 04, 2004, at 19:23, Horst von Brand wrote: > > ... And pointless, you'd just get Linux as it stands > > today, and loose many current developers (due to unfamiliarity with > > C++).
> Personally, the reason _I_ hate C++ is that I got tired of having to > learn the obtuse combinations of symbols and excess keywords necessary to > bludgeon my favorite refcount and memory management systems into the C++ > objects. It just wasn't worth the effort when I could write equivalent, > better, and easier to read code in C.
C++ is sufficiently not C that for such it is probably best to just redesign the systems. Well done it is probably more elegant than C, but to get there is a _lot_ of work. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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