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

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Dmitry Kakurin, Sat, Sep 08, 2007 02:32:09 +0200:
> 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.

It is because the "environment of mainstream commercial software
development" is stuck in "8-10" back from now.

> 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++.

Now that's a stupid argument to bring up. Commercial software
development is were the most stupid mistakes are done and repeated.

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

"Just to annoy mainstream commercial software developers" would be a
good reason.

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