Re: C++ in the Linux kernel.

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:43:19 +0300 (MSK)


In <007e01be3dfc$d072f400$04c809c0@Fake.Domain.com> Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com) wrote:

> Keep this age old piece of military wisdom in mind, one of the best ways to
> destroy your enemy is to divide and conquer him. Look at the battle between
> KDE and GNOME; in the end it has just delayed the adoption of a standard
> advanced Windowing system. This could have been done six months ago; in the
> end it will be done. Instead we have reviews of Redhat stating great in
> catagory after catagory; until it comes to the windowing interface last
> label (from what I remember) "looks like Windows 95 and the Common Desktop
> Eviroment after a bad train wreak." This is not something new users like to
> see.

BTW KDE and GNOME will show us what language is better :-) GNOME is written in
C while KDE is written in C++ ... KDE was started early so we should wait some
time (few years parhaps) to make this handicap irrelevant but rewriting kernel
in C++ is not near future anyway ...

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