From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: alan Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library. Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 18:40:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <46DDC500.5000606@etek.chalmers.se> <1189004090.20311.12.camel@hinata.boston.redhat.com> <4AFD7EAD1AAC4E54A416BA3F6E6A9E52@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Dmitry Kakurin , Matthieu Moy , Git To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 07 03:41:05 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 1ITSqC-0007F9-Hq for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:41:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932587AbXIGBk4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:40:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932556AbXIGBkz (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:40:55 -0400 Received: from 216-99-213-120.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.213.120]:57880 "EHLO clueserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932551AbXIGBkz (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:40:55 -0400 Received: by clueserver.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 79244F50395; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 18:40:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clueserver.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75865F50279; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 18:40:54 -0700 (PDT) X-X-Sender: alan@blackbox.fnordora.org In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > IOW, C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things > simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI > programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is > that actively encourags you to use simple and direct constructs. Not to mention try finding two C++ compilers that support the same language features. C is a known quantity. C++ depends on whos compiler you use and what class libraries you use. Trying to make those things work crossplatform is not an easy task. (Harder than it is in C at least.) A number of years ago, a programmer who will not be named (and is not me), tried to port Perl to C++. It was a disaster. He found that every compiler handled something differently. If you stuck to one compiler, it might work. But trying to get GCC to work like MS C++ or Borland C++ or whatever is just asking for pain. -- Refrigerator Rule #1: If you don't remember when you bought it, Don't eat it.