From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932157AbWDYJNE (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:13:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932156AbWDYJND (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:13:03 -0400 Received: from mail.mimer.no ([213.184.200.1]:2746 "EHLO odin.mimer.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932160AbWDYJNC (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:13:02 -0400 From: Harald Arnesen To: Diego Calleja Cc: jamagallon@able.es, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: C++ pushback References: <4024F493-F668-4F03-9EB7-B334F312A558@iomega.com> <444D44F2.8090300@wolfmountaingroup.com> <1145915533.1635.60.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060425001617.0a536488@werewolf.auna.net> <87iroyr03a.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> <20060425024625.288f616e.diegocg@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:12:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20060425024625.288f616e.diegocg@gmail.com> (Diego Calleja's message of "Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:46:25 +0200") Message-ID: <87u08ivx0r.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Diego Calleja writes: > El Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:05:29 +0200, > Harald Arnesen escribió: > >> The former is easier to read and understand? > > C is not perfect, it could very well get a bit improved so it helps to make > the code more readable, etc (and I mean: just improvements, not "lets try to > turn C into a OO language"). That however requires modifying the current > C standards, gcc... > > But that doesn't justifies adding C++ support to the kernel. It was the C version I found easier to understand. -- Hilsen Harald.