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From: Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 21:48:47 -0700
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[ snip ]

When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as odd:
1. Pure C as opposed to C++. No idea why. Please don't talk about 
portability, it's BS.
2. Brute-force, direct string manipulation. It's both verbose and 
error-prone. This makes it hard to follow high-level code logic.

- Dmitry