devd

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Jun 21 02:18:49 GMT 2005


In message: <42B75C7D.2050103 at criticalmagic.com>
            Richard Coleman <rcoleman at criticalmagic.com> writes:
: M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > devd won't be rewritten to not use C++.  That's a non-option.
: > 
: > Warner
: 
: Out of curiosity, why is that?  I have nothing against C++, but that 
: stance seems surprising.  I have not scanned the tree, but I was under 
: the impression that very little of the base system that is written in C++.

Because I wrote it, and I don't like stupid reasons to dictate a
choice of language.  It will remain C++ because I'm a grumpy old man,
and I feel that rewriting it to get around the bogosities of the build
system is wrong headed.

Warner


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