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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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