Re: [OT] Re: C++ *for Git*

> From a Linus recent thread:
> 
> > - inefficient abstracted programming models where two years down the road
> >  you notice that some abstraction wasn't very efficient, but now all
> >   your code depends on all the nice object models around it, and you
> >   cannot fix it without rewriting your app.
> >
> >In other words, the only way to do good, efficient, and system-level and
> >portable C++ ends up to limit yourself to all the things that are
> >basically available in C. And limiting your project to C means that people
> >don't screw that up, and also means that you get a lot of programmers that
> >do actually understand low-level issues and don't screw things up with any
> >idiotic "object model" crap.
> 
> Perhaps I have misunderstood, but the idea I got is that for Linus OO
> brings in more problems than what it tries to fix.