From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261453AbULFD2D (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:28:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261464AbULFD2D (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:28:03 -0500 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:2186 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261453AbULFD2A (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:28:00 -0500 Message-Id: <200412052243.iB5Mh5SG006136@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> To: Kyle Moffett cc: Horst von Brand , Imanpreet Singh Arora , lkml - Kernel Mailing List , Jan Engelhardt Subject: Re: What if? In-Reply-To: Message from Kyle Moffett of "Sun, 05 Dec 2004 01:21:44 CDT." X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 15) Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 19:43:05 -0300 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kyle Moffett 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