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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