Frank> On 06-Jul-99 Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> C++ is much harder to maintain because there are a zillion obscure
>> features people can use in there. It means that the people who
>> maintains the kernel needs to understand these things as well thus
>> we suddenly reduce the number of potential kernel programmers to a
>> tiny fraction of what we had before.
Frank> until now I thought (and experienced) exactly the opposite.
Frank> C++ is imho especially perfect to maintain bigger projects and
Frank> was designed for this. to make programmers life easier in
Frank> bigger projects and development teams. in a well designed C++
Frank> project you are actually forced to do the right thing (e.g. use
Frank> inherited objects in the right way - and yes, use the overload
Frank> feature to simply add features to an inherited object works
Frank> great and does not confuse at all, if you are using it in the
Frank> right way...). so do you really think C++ (and OOP in general)
Frank> is a retrogression compared to C ??
I am not saying OOP is bad, I am saying C++ is bad, in particular in
the kernel. We have had this thread before, lets not get side tracked
again. The Linux kernel is a very good example of Object Oriented C.
If people want to discuss whether C++ is superior to C, please do it
somewhere else.
Jes
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