Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sep 7, 2007, 22:28 UTC
Message-ID: <85sl5q1570.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <a1bbc6950709071517n7e7e99ffl3dd351092e7f19d6@mail.gmail.com>

"Dmitry Kakurin" <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 9/6/07, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
>> They already have, but every now and then someone comes along and suggest
>> a complete rewrite in some other language. So far we've had Java (there's
>> always one...), Python and now C++.
>
> Since this "complete rewrite" was mentioned in multiple emails I'd
> like to rectify that:
> What I'm offering (for Git) is to use C++ as a "better C".
> Don't change any existing *working* code, but start introducing simple
> C++ constructs in the new code.

You are aware that the Linux kernel was kept compilable under g++ for a while in its history? You'll need more than vague words to erase the memories from that experiment...

Just compiling under C++, with no source changes, is likely to impact performance and compile time rather badly, not to mention portability (you need the C++ runtime, for one thing).

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum