From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Subject: Re: [PATCH kvm-unit-tests 2/4] Introduce a C++ wrapper for the kvm APIs Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:06:49 +0100 Message-ID: <4CED4629.2060804@redhat.com> References: <1290595933-13122-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <1290595933-13122-3-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <50DD1E97-0ECD-41E6-B6F8-1D78AA4A4876@suse.de> <4CED2416.1040102@codemonkey.ws> <20101124154006.GE15111@redhat.com> <4CED344B.3030000@codemonkey.ws> <4CED3FE6.50900@redhat.com> <4CED41A0.8060003@redhat.com> <4CED4276.9090103@redhat.com> <4CED445E.30105@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Anthony Liguori , Gleb Natapov , Alexander Graf , Marcelo Tosatti , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:31074 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755222Ab0KXRGy (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:06:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4CED445E.30105@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/24/10 17:59, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 11/24/2010 06:51 PM, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> Right we need good design for our C code, which we are lacking to a >> large extend. However that has nothing to do with the language, that has >> to do with the developers. > > I'm sure patches will be welcome. > > C++ doesn't enforce good design. But it allows a good design to be > enforced. Sorry but that is utterly and completely bogus! The enforcement is only as good as the developers and maintainers make it, and C++ has more trapdoors than C has ever had. Sure you can shoot yourself in the foot in C, in C++ you take the whole leg off instead. Jes