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

Dmitry Kakurin, Sat, Sep 08, 2007 02:32:09 +0200:

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

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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.

It is because the "environment of mainstream commercial software
development" is stuck in "8-10" back from now.

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++.

Now that's a stupid argument to bring up. Commercial software
development is were the most stupid mistakes are done and repeated.

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

"Just to annoy mainstream commercial software developers" would be a
good reason.