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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:36:49 +0100 From: "Karol Swietlicki" <magotari@...il.com> To: Ben.Crowhurst@...llatravel.co.uk Cc: loic.grenie@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C On 30/11/2007, Ben Crowhurst <Ben.Crowhurst@...llatravel.co.uk> wrote: > Loïc Grenié wrote: > > 2007/11/29, Ben Crowhurst <Ben.Crowhurst@...llatravel.co.uk>: > > > >> Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? > >> <snip> > > Lots of people will think of better reasons why ObjC is not used... > > > > Loïc Grenié > > > Which I'm looking forward to hear :) > > Thank you for your appropriate response. Here are a few reasons off the top of my head: 1. Adding extra unneeded complexity. Debugging would be harder. 2. Not many people can code ObjC when compared to the number of C coders. 3. If it ain't broken... Why fix it. The kernel works, right? Good. You can find a great explanation somewhere out there, I'm not sure who wrote it and the thing was explaining why C++ is not a great choice for the Linux kernel. Some things going against C++ will also go against ObjC. I cannot find it, but it is out there somewhere. I'm a newbie and I might be wrong, but the above is what I believe to be true. Karol Swietlicki - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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