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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
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In-reply-to: <87aa2rjkb8.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (message from Tom Tromey on	Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:47:39 -0600)
Subject: Re: Will therefore GDB utilize C++ or not?
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> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:47:39 -0600
> 
> >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> Jan> To C++ or not to C++?  Unfortunately the discussion was here
> Jan> already before and I am aware several contributors are not welcome
> Jan> with it, I think it does not need to affect readability of C code
> Jan> much, there is not enough workforce to rewrite all the GDB code
> Jan> into C++ style anyway.  Still C++ would help a lot, some kinds of
> Jan> bugs are not solvable without it.
> 
> I'm strongly in favor of C++ for reasons I'll lay out below.

And my position on this has not changed: I'm strongly against.  C++ is
horrible language that should never have been invented.