If Linus wants to rub two sticks together with C then he's the boss. C++ was a very different language when he started hacking the kernel. OS/400 has substantial layers of C++ code in the OS stack. There's a good paper about it http://www.cparity.com/projects/AcmClassification/samples/226253.pdf.
On 18/09/2012, at 8:21 PM, Shane Ginnane <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:40:11 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > >> In fact, I find it difficult to fathom why anybody >> would still write C code when C++ is such a superior language. > > I seem to recall some fella named Torvalds having his say about this a few > years ago. > People (no, not Dave) keep coming up with a plaintive "why ain't the kernel > written in C++ ... ?" > > Comes back to the old adage of "right tool for the job". > > Shane ... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
