On 9/7/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote: > > > 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. -- - Dmitry - 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
