From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 20:34:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dns.pacang.com (adsl-63-193-245-242.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.245.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A09337B400 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 20:34:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bservies@localhost) by dns.pacang.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id UAA16736; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 20:34:34 -0800 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 20:34:34 -0800 From: Byron Servies To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: D J Hawkey Jr , bts@babbleon.org Subject: Re: C vs C++ Message-ID: <20020306203433.F15417@pacang.com> References: <20020305164731.530B5BA03_i8k.babbleon.org@ns.sol.net> <200203061219.g26CJEJ61813@sheol.localdomain> <20020306191709.A55297@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020306191709.A55297@dragon.nuxi.com>; from devnull@NUXI.com on Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:17:09PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On March 06, 2002 at 19:17, David O'Brien wrote: > > *sigh* IF you say that then you really aren't thinking at at all. > Why isn't Eiffel (one of those pure OOL's) used more? BECAUSE IT ISN'T > C. Got it? No one is willing to learn a new language. How much > bitching do we get because CVSup is written in Modula-3? It is a My only problem with modula-3 was the lack of compiler support on "alternative" platforms. I couldn't figure out how to port the one I found (well, I figured it out: it was a _huge_ amount of work). Now, Oberon, there's a language! Byron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message