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Subject: Re: C++ in the kernel 
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In message <20071027063728.GK33488@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes:

>I do think it would be nice to suppost at miniumum a subset of 
>C++ in kernel, but I think someone would have to come forward to do
>the heavy lifting. :)

I think it would be nice to augment C in the kernel, but C++ would
not be the correct augmentation for this purpose.

Instead of repeating myself, I'll just refer to my previous ramblings
on the subject and the SoC correspondence on the 'K' language
experiments.

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