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. - 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