Re: C++ *for Git*
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Kyle Rose <krose@krose.org>
- Date
- Sep 22, 2007, 15:15 UTC
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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.