C++ in the kernel

[Ivan Voras]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20071028074310.233895B3E at mail.bitblocks.com>, Bakul Shah writes:
> 
>> It will be the proverbial camel's nose in the tent.  A subset
>> of C++ is attractive for kernel work but it will be hard to
>> hold the line at that.
> 
> That's one of my main arguments why we should "own the language" we
> use.

A bit of the "NIH syndrome" here? :)

> The other main argument is that we can then teach the language to
> do the things we need it to do.

The less people know the language, the less it will be used. A "one-off"
language (like "K") applicable only for FreeBSD is not exactly doomed to
popularity.