"Dmitry Kakurin" <dmitry.kakurin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 9/6/07, Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> 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). -- 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
