From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:57:47 GMT Subject: Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg) Message-ID: <7vodofx06s.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > But I'll admit - my main reason going with C is (a) it's what I know and > (b) I absolutely _hate_ being constrained by the language. The great thing > about C (still) is that you can do *anything* in it. You're literally > limited by hardware, and by your own abilities. Nothing else. > > Linus Well, if you count "time" as part of your own ability then that is true. Some things are too cumbersome and not performance critical enough to do in C.