Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 23:39:56 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1015911597.be0b8e@mired.org> To: hawkeyd@visi.com Cc: "David O'Brien" <devnull@NUXI.com>, bts@babbleon.org, Diane Bruce <db@db.net>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: C vs C++ Message-ID: <15494.64812.598093.56688@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20020306215305.A64016@sheol.localdomain> References: <LAW2-F145zHHwkqnpib00016ada_hotmail.com@ns.sol.net> <20020305164731.530B5BA03_i8k.babbleon.org@ns.sol.net> <200203061219.g26CJEJ61813@sheol.localdomain> <20020306191709.A55297@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020306215305.A64016@sheol.localdomain>
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D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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