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

From: Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 8, 2007, 00:32 UTC
Message-ID: <a1bbc6950709071732s1f15e5ev28bdfc5c1ab5877b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709071119510.28586@racer.site>

On 9/7/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:
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> > Anyway I don't mean to start a religious C vs. C++ war.
>
> You have a very strange way of not meaning to start a C vs. C++ war.

I honestly didn't. I didn't even think it's possible. In the environment of mainstream commercial software development the last war on this subj was over 8-10 years ago. Even wars like "do we use exceptions/templates/stl" are pretty much over. Now days it's "do we use Boost", or "do we use template metaprogramming". But even more often it's Java/C# vs. C++.

That's why I was wondering how come C was chosen for Git.

> > It's a matter of beliefs and as such pointless.
>
> No, it's not.  As has been shown by some very good _arguments_.  Once you
> have facts to back up your claims, it is not any belief any longer.

Well I've heard *opinions* and anecdotal evidence. No facts though. And it's not surprising. There could be no hard facts in such a matter. It always boils down to "most of all, I want my software to be X" where X is different for different people (fast,maintainable,quick to market, scalable, beautiful, etc ... to name a few). With different values of X any debate is pointless. And X is exactly the matter of believes.

Anyway my curiosity is satisfied (thru the roof so to speak) and I think it's enough on the subj. It has reminded me of good old times though.

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- Dmitry