Jamie> Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> C++ is much harder to maintain because there are a zillion obscure
>> features people can use in there.
Jamie> Albert suggests restricting g++ to those features approved by
Jamie> Linus, enforcing it in the compiler. A bit far fetched I
Jamie> think.
Jamie> I do think the code generation issue is fixed now though. That
Jamie> was the originally objection to g++ -- back when g++ was used
Jamie> to compile kernels for better type checking.
How are you going to restrict it? Require people to run a special
version of the compiler?
Jes
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