Jes Sorensen wrote:
>
> Manfred> Someone might try to port a device driver that was written in
> Manfred> C++ from another OS to Linux, and then this would be a
> Manfred> problem.
>
> Then you convert the device driver into proper C and the problem no
> longer exists.
Do you believe that? He just won't port the driver to Linux.
Have you ever written a c++ program? Some features are really usefull.
>
> Making it easy to write C++ driver modules means somebody will do
> it. Once somebody has done it, somebody else will try to use some of
> the brain dread C++ features such as exceptions - therefore totally
> preventing people from writing any bits of the kernel in C++ is a good
> thing.
What about stopping to distribute the Linux source code?
Somebody will write broken drivers, therefore totally preventing people
from writing any bits of of the kernel is a good thing.
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