Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Sep 2014 20:33:13 +0200 | From | Alexander Holler <> | Subject | Re: OT: Open letter to the Linux World |
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Am 04.09.2014 20:27, schrieb Rogelio Serrano: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote: >> Am 13.08.2014 11:00, schrieb Borislav Petkov: >> >>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:27:56AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >>>> >>>> And the thing is; we're all very busy so we tend to take the 'easy' >>>> way out for things like this; but wholesale switching all my machines >>>> is indeed painful, and I'm not liking. >>> >>> >>> Right, I think kernel people will gladly jump on a sane solution devoid >>> of that kids-jerking-off-on-linux-desktop-just-for-the-fun-of-it >>> situation if someone would present them with one. So, if someone would >>> come up and do a sane init design without the jerking off, kernel people >>> would jump on that in a heartbeat. Someone might even start getting >>> patches from them too. ^^Hint^^ ^^hint^^. >>> >>> :-) >> >> >> Hmm, a sane and maintainable solution would use C++ with which people don't >> have to manually build lists or hashes for every structure like in the >> kernel (generic programming done right). So you won't find much kernel >> developers there. ;) >> > > Seriously Dude? > > Have you tried it? I was using c++ before during and after the stl was > standardised > and the memories of the resulting induced self hair pulling still > gives me the shivers. > Try writing a real time kernel with full c++ support. You have to > provide the entire c++ > runtime in the kernel! > > I still do a little c++ programming when i am forced to but its only > in small pieces. > Ill go crazy otherwise.
I've started to use C++ when only precompilers (to translate C++ to C) were available. That was long before the STL was standardised.
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