Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

IOW, C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things
simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI
programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is
that actively encourags you to use simple and direct constructs.

Not to mention try finding two C++ compilers that support the same 
language features.  C is a known quantity. C++ depends on whos compiler 
you use and what class libraries you use.  Trying to make those things 
work crossplatform is not an easy task.  (Harder than it is in C at 
least.)

A number of years ago, a programmer who will not be named (and is not me), 
tried to port Perl to C++.  It was a disaster.  He found that every 
compiler handled something differently.

If you stuck to one compiler, it might work.  But trying to get GCC to 
work like MS C++ or Borland C++ or whatever is just asking for pain.

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