"Dmitry Kakurin" <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 9/6/07, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> 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).

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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