From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32396 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2008 20:04:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 32386 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jul 2008 20:04:23 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aussmtpmrkps320.us.dell.com (HELO aussmtpmrkps320.us.dell.com) (143.166.224.254) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:03:51 +0000 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.30,332,1212382800"; d="scan'208";a="368321842" Received: from unknown (HELO M31.equallogic.com) ([12.110.134.31]) by aussmtpmrkps320.us.dell.com with SMTP; 10 Jul 2008 15:03:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18550.27427.430241.185251@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:04:00 -0000 From: Paul Koning To: stanshebs@earthlink.net Cc: mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Move GDB to C++ ? References: <487658F7.1090508@earthlink.net> <200807101901.m6AJ1UMQ007185@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <48766A88.1050402@earthlink.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" XEmacs Lucid X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-07/txt/msg00087.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs writes: Stan> Mark Kettenis wrote: >> I think this is an absolutely retarded idea. C++ is a horrible >> programming language. >> Stan> Okay... so, uh, since C++ is basically a superset of C, Stan> presumably the horribleness you are thinking of relates to Stan> specific extensions. Maybe not. C is horrible, too. But I'm afraid it's unlikely that GDB will get ported to, say, Modula-2. :-) paul