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

Dmitry Kakurin wrote:

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

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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.

There are far too many highly valuable contributors that have spoken
against C++ for me to believe that C++ and C will ever co-exist in the
official git repo. Good thing utility classes can be developed on top
of the existing C-code, but in a separate repo, and packed into a
library. That way, you get some hacking ground for your beloved C++
coderswhile the current git contributors can keep contributing in the
language they like best.

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 :-).

The C code base is a lot larger and C++ will drop dead pretty fast if it's
ever removed or left unmaintained. So much for dinosaurs...

And C++ is the only way to move with existing C codebase.

Complete and utter BS. It can also stay in C, or get language bindings for
Python/Perl/PHP/LUA(?)/whatever, or both.

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