From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>,
"Dmitry Kakurin" <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Matthieu Moy" <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:41:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709070841.33057.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85ejhb7yzw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
On Friday 2007 September 07, David Kastrup wrote:
(Disclaimer: I'm certainly not joining the "C++ for git" chant; this reply is
merely to the statements made about C++ in David's message).
> The problem with C++ is that every C++ developer has his own style,
> and reuse is an illusion within that style. Take a look at classes
> implementing matrix arithmetic: there are as many around as the day is
> long, and all of them are incompatible with one another.
One could say the same about any API. "Take a look at that C library libXYZ -
it does exactly the same thing as libPQR but all the function calls and
structures are different. Conclusion: C is shit". Obviously nonsense.
> With regard to programming styles, C++ does not support multiple
> inheritance. For a single project grown from a single start, you can
Multiple inheritance is the spawn of the devil, but C++ _does_ support it.
Forgetting about the terrible STL, to me there really is no difference between
C and C++; you can be object oriented in C. Take a look at the Linux kernel,
it should be printed out, rolled up and used to beat the ideas into students
learning C++/Java/C#. Object oriented design is a choice, and if you really
wanted you could do it in assembly.
I would imagine the reason people often turn up wanting to rewrite Linux and
git in C++ is because they are so object oriented in nature already and it's
natural to think "wouldn't this be even better if I wrote it in an object
oriented language"? Maybe, maybe not, but why bother?
Andy
--
Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
andyparkins@gmail.com
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Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-04 20:50 [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library Lukas Sandström
2007-09-04 21:38 ` Alex Riesen
2007-09-04 23:01 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-05 14:54 ` Kristian Høgsberg
2007-09-05 17:29 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-09-06 2:30 ` Miles Bader
2007-09-06 4:48 ` Dmitry Kakurin
2007-09-06 4:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-09-06 9:12 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-06 9:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-06 10:21 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-06 9:52 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-06 5:03 ` Miles Bader
2007-09-06 12:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-06 17:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-07 0:21 ` Dmitry Kakurin
2007-09-07 0:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-07 1:08 ` Dmitry Kakurin
2007-09-07 1:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-07 3:09 ` Dmitry Kakurin
2007-09-07 5:48 ` David Symonds
2007-09-07 6:15 ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-20 14:06 ` Steven Burns
2007-09-20 14:56 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-07 6:31 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-07 22:17 ` Dmitry Kakurin
2007-09-07 22:28 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-08 0:37 ` Dmitry Kakurin
2007-09-08 6:25 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-09 0:29 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-07 6:52 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-07 10:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-07 10:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-07 6:50 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-07 1:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-07 1:40 ` alan
2007-09-07 5:09 ` Walter Bright
2007-09-07 7:40 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-07 8:15 ` Walter Bright
2007-09-07 8:26 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-07 9:14 ` Walter Bright
2007-09-07 9:31 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-07 20:22 ` Walter Bright
2007-09-07 20:27 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-07 23:16 ` Walter Bright
2007-09-08 23:50 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-09 0:37 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-09 1:36 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-07 11:36 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-09-07 9:41 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-07 19:03 ` Walter Bright
2007-09-07 19:31 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-07 20:49 ` Walter Bright
2007-09-07 19:41 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-07 19:51 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-07 19:59 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-07 20:40 ` Walter Bright
2007-09-07 20:56 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-07 22:54 ` Walter Bright
2007-09-08 0:56 ` John 'Z-Bo' Zabroski
2007-09-08 6:36 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-19 19:56 ` Steven Burns
2007-09-07 3:06 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-09-07 4:06 ` Paul Wankadia
2007-09-07 4:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-07 9:19 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-09-07 6:25 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-07 10:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-07 11:54 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-07 12:33 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-09-07 12:55 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-09-07 13:58 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-07 14:13 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-09-09 0:09 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-07 16:09 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-07 11:30 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-09-07 8:36 ` Walter Bright
2007-09-07 9:41 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-07 19:23 ` Walter Bright
2007-09-07 19:40 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-09 0:25 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-09-17 16:23 ` Bernd Jendrissek
2007-09-07 11:52 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-09-07 19:25 ` Walter Bright
2007-09-22 16:52 ` Steven Burns
2007-09-07 6:47 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-07 7:41 ` Andy Parkins [this message]
2007-09-07 8:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-07 10:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-08 0:32 ` Dmitry Kakurin
2007-09-08 6:24 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-08 23:25 ` Alex Riesen
2007-09-24 13:41 ` figo
2007-09-24 13:57 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-25 19:19 ` Steven Burns
2007-09-25 19:55 ` David Kastrup
2012-05-22 18:30 ` Syed M Raihan
2010-06-10 19:12 ` Ian Molton
2010-06-11 12:23 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-06-11 13:33 ` Dario Rodriguez
2007-09-05 15:27 ` Kristian Høgsberg
2007-09-07 10:47 ` Lukas Sandström
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