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Date:      Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:46:50 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Cc:        bms@incunabulum.net, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: C++ in the kernel 
Message-ID:  <23408.1193557610@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:43:09 MST." <20071028074310.233895B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> 

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In message <20071028074310.233895B3E@mail.bitblocks.com>, Bakul Shah writes:

>It will be the proverbial camel's nose in the tent.  A subset
>of C++ is attractive for kernel work but it will be hard to
>hold the line at that.

That's one of my main arguments why we should "own the language" we
use.

The other main argument is that we can then teach the language to
do the things we need it to do.

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