On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:27:12 -0600, Ryan King <ryansking@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Yeah, but in the case of the Linux kernel there's no programming > language that is both OO and close enough to the metal to program a > kernel (other than maybe Forth??). C++, being a superset of C, would certainly be 'close enough to the metal' and is indeed OO, yet the Linux kernel developers have chosen not to use it. > That means that we can't make a judgment as to the > relative merits of procedural and object-based programming in kernel > development. Sure we can, but we don't have to since they already made it. No OO in the kernel was the verdict many times over: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://gdconsultants.com/ http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
