From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:12:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.
Message-ID: <46DFC490.3060200@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20070906045942.GR18160@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com> 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.

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