From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 21:40:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66E3437B404 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 21:39:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 82806 invoked by uid 100); 7 Mar 2002 05:39:57 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15494.64812.598093.56688@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 23:39:56 -0600 To: hawkeyd@visi.com Cc: "David O'Brien" , bts@babbleon.org, Diane Bruce , Mike Meyer , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: C vs C++ In-Reply-To: <20020306215305.A64016@sheol.localdomain> References: <20020305164731.530B5BA03_i8k.babbleon.org@ns.sol.net> <200203061219.g26CJEJ61813@sheol.localdomain> <20020306191709.A55297@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020306215305.A64016@sheol.localdomain> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) 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 D J Hawkey Jr types: > First, you're ascribing me to a group I don't belong. While I don't know > Eiffel, or Lisp, or Modula, Snobol, etc., I don't demean them, nor do I > bitch about such-and-such being written with them (well, not publicly, > anyway). Many's the time I've wanted to modify a program written in a > language I didn't/don't know, and learned enough of it to re-write it in > a language I do know, just to do the changes I wanted. Ack! That makes believe the comments about people not wanting to learn new languages. I would do it the other way around, and learn enough of the language it's written in to make the changes I wanted. In fact, I think that's a good way to learn a language, providing you have a stylisticly good example to start with. I'll leave the conclusions to be drawn about Linux from that to someone else. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message