From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751417AbWDYI2N (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:28:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751059AbWDYI2N (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:28:13 -0400 Received: from smtp106.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.216]:54145 "HELO smtp106.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751427AbWDYI2M (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:28:12 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=a+gev0eSG63Wc1x3CUG2ZveDxkThvcCAtfa2sAjvbp9eU/Vut5iiATEZDYTw8yy4vFAM3FiYNu65KYeMy4D2+2Zphv3m7+hJFDATkSswkOww++/IbxIXjsUW/yGPAQ9wRlzUyL9/Jqej8aRpKxduqwHpJsfYDdkS5CkcQQEpioQ= ; Message-ID: <444DD3F6.70108@yahoo.com.au> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:47:02 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Avi Kivity CC: Martin Mares , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: C++ pushback References: <4024F493-F668-4F03-9EB7-B334F312A558@iomega.com> <444DD0E7.5070005@argo.co.il> In-Reply-To: <444DD0E7.5070005@argo.co.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Avi Kivity wrote: > [original poster de-cc'ed] > > Martin Mares wrote: > >> Can you name any reasons for why should we support C++ in the kernel? >> > > 1. Porting existing modules written in C++ - the trigger for this thread? > > 2. Shorter, faster, more robust code. > >> Why shouldn't we invest the effort to making it possible to write kernel >> modules in Haskell instead? >> > > C++ is a system programming language with good C compatibility. Making > the kernel compatible with C++ is doable. You could call it Linux++ and discuss it to your heart's content in l++kml ;) -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com