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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:08:53 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Miles Bader wrote:

> Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> Just to piss you off.

Hehe.

FWIW I strongly disagree that it's BS.  As others have stated, the reasons 
are easily found, and they are no weak arguments.

Ciao,
Dscho