From: Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:48:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.
Message-ID: <4AFD7EAD1AAC4E54A416BA3F6E6A9E52@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq642pkoln.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

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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.
2. Brute-force, direct string manipulation. It's both verbose and 
error-prone. This makes it hard to follow high-level code logic.

- Dmitry