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

On 9/7/07, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:

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Anyway I don't mean to start a religious C vs. C++ war.

You have a very strange way of not meaning to start a C vs. C++ war.

I honestly didn't. I didn't even think it's possible. In the
environment of mainstream commercial software development the last war
on this subj was over 8-10 years ago.
Even wars like "do we use exceptions/templates/stl" are pretty much
over. Now days it's "do we use Boost", or "do we use template
metaprogramming". But even more often it's Java/C# vs. C++.

That's why I was wondering how come C was chosen for Git.

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It's a matter of beliefs and as such pointless.

No, it's not.  As has been shown by some very good _arguments_.  Once you
have facts to back up your claims, it is not any belief any longer.

Well I've heard *opinions* and anecdotal evidence. No facts though.
And it's not surprising. There could be no hard facts in such a
matter. It always boils down to "most of all, I want my software to be
X" where X is different for different people (fast,maintainable,quick
to market, scalable, beautiful, etc ... to name a few).
With different values of X any debate is pointless. And X is exactly
the matter of believes.

Anyway my curiosity is satisfied (thru the roof so to speak) and I
think it's enough on the subj. It has reminded me of good old times
though.

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- Dmitry