Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, David Kastrup wrote: >> > >> > But your statement is provably wrong. Just *look* at well-maintained >> > projects that have extended way past their original design and usage >> > model. A lot of them are in C. >> >> You mean like Emacs which is mostly scripted in Elisp? Or the Gimp >> which is mainly scripted using script-fu? > > No. I mean standard C code projects. Like the kernel. Like a huge > class of other projects that are C. Not scripts. By golly, you are right. Pretty much all projects that are defined by not including a script language don't include a script language. > Big, huge, projects are all done in C, and they are well-maintained. Ok, so Emacs is a small project. And Plone is a small project. And Ajax is a small project. And LaTeX is a small project. And autoconf is a small project. And gcc is a small project (we can't have RTL in a big, huge, project, after all). And the Linux kernel doesn't include Makefiles or any other stuff that would be scripted in anything but C. > Scripting is not the rule at all. And it is silly to say that > regular all-C projects need to have scripting. Actually, if they are defined as all-C, they _can't_ have scripting by definition. I am not really interested in continuing this. I don't think that there is much I can do to make my point clearer than I did, so any further amount of "does not" -- "does too" will not make anybody including ourselves change his mind. All the best, -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
