linux-kernel - Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

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Date:	Sun, 2 Dec 2007 20:44:30 +0100
From:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...o.co.il>
Cc:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Ben Crowhurst <Ben.Crowhurst@...llatravel.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

On Sat, 1 December 2007 21:59:31 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 
> Object orientation in C leaves much to be desired; see the huge number 
> of void pointers and container_of()s in the kernel.

While true, this isn't such a bad problem.  A language really sucks when
it tries to disallow something useful.  Back in university I was forced
to write system software in pascal.  Simple pointer arithmetic became a
5-line piece of code.

Imo the main advantage of C is simply that it doesn't get in the way.

Jörn

-- 
But this is not to say that the main benefit of Linux and other GPL
software is lower-cost. Control is the main benefit--cost is secondary.
-- Bruce Perens
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