From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library. Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:12:48 +0200 Message-ID: <46DFC490.3060200@op5.se> References: <4AFD7EAD1AAC4E54A416BA3F6E6A9E52@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com> <20070906045942.GR18160@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dmitry Kakurin , Matthieu Moy , Git To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 06 11:13:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ITDQ0-0000HR-EH for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:12:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753885AbXIFJMw (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 05:12:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753206AbXIFJMw (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 05:12:52 -0400 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:52925 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753839AbXIFJMv (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 05:12:51 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC55A194465; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:12:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Score: -4.399 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.399 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id oCsHIs36kcIM; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:12:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from nox.op5.se (unknown [192.168.1.178]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C509194421; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:12:49 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) In-Reply-To: <20070906045942.GR18160@spearce.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Dmitry Kakurin wrote: >> When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as odd: >> 1. Pure C as opposed to C++. No idea why. Please don't talk about >> portability, it's BS. > > It is also a relatively simple language that > a large number of open source programmers know. This makes it easy > for them to get involved in the project. This is important. Git contains code from more than 300 people. I'm guessing you could cut that number by 2/3 if it had been written in C++. Git is cheating a bit though. Its primary audience was (and is) the various integrators working on the Linux kernel, all of whom are fairly competent C programmers. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231