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

On 9/6/07, Andreas Ericsson [off-list ref] wrote:

They already have, but every now and then someone comes along and suggest
a complete rewrite in some other language. So far we've had Java (there's
always one...), Python and now C++.

Since this "complete rewrite" was mentioned in multiple emails I'd
like to rectify that:
What I'm offering (for Git) is to use C++ as a "better C".
Don't change any existing *working* code, but start introducing simple
C++ constructs in the new code.
Git is simple enough to not require any high-level abstractions. But
some utility classes could make code much simpler.

And BTW, I don't even like C++ that much :-), I just like it much
better than C.  I've been saying that C++ is a legacy language for
quite some time now. But we will use it for many years to come because
the size of this legacy code is huge, so there will be plenty of C++
developers available (to contribute to Git :-).
And C++ is the only way to move with existing C codebase.
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- Dmitry