From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932740AbaIDHzN (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2014 03:55:13 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:54202 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932210AbaIDHzL (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2014 03:55:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 09:54:53 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Alexander Holler Cc: Borislav Petkov , =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , Steven Rostedt , Christopher Barry , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OT: Open letter to the Linux World Message-ID: <20140904075453.GK3190@worktop.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <20140812153812.2923046a@monolith.infinux.org> <20140812202129.GA20344@home.goodmis.org> <20140813082756.GB2923@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20140813090013.GA20581@pd.tnic> <53F242D1.4050506@ahsoftware.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53F242D1.4050506@ahsoftware.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22.1 (2013-10-16) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 08:15:45PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: > > 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. ;) > Troll a lot do you? ;-) While I like C++ (and quite a number of kernel people can in fact write C++ no problem) we can have a long debate about whether the STL is in fact 'done right' :-) Also, I don't think init (as in PID-1) should be a large program, and therefore writing it in C would be entirely reasonable.