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From: Kyle Rose <krose@krose.org>
Subject: Re: C++ *for Git*
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:15:22 -0400
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You know, git *is* free software.  Feel free to fork it and add all the
C++ code you want.

FWIW, I am of the opinion that Python or Ruby (or god forbid, Perl)
would have been a better choice for something like git that does lots of
text processing... furthermore, I think the exception handling, garbage
collection, and implicit object destruction provided by those languages
(and by C++, as overwrought as it is) makes any codebase easier to
understand and maintain.

But that's irrelevant: git is written in C.  That's the way it is, and
you should accept that or fork.

Kyle

Dmitry Kakurin wrote:
> We've had this theoretical (and IMHO pointless) discussion C vs. C++ *in
> general*.
> In no way I want to restart it.