Re: Object Oriented Linux

Adam Sampson (azz@gnu.org)
Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:00:19 +0100

On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 03:19:56AM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'm sorry, Victor but this one gets under my skin. If people want to
> write kernel code in C++ well good for them. All it requires of the
> kernel developers is to take the darn C++ keywords out of the headers.
> About an hour's work for someone who has a license for /bin/vi.
>
> This is an ideological language war masquerading as a technical and
> supportability issue.

You could make exactly the same argument for including support for
writing kernel internals in any other language.

I think the issue here is that if the kernel developers allow people to
write kernel code in C++, it will require other kernel developers to
know C++; keeping Linux to one language makes it easier for people to
modify each other's code.

-- 


Adam Sampson
azz@gnu.org


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