From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 18:35:05 +0300 From: Anastasopoulos S To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages, why? In-Reply-To: <7359f0490405201759c4e4536@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8390fbba-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 20 May 2004, Rob Pike wrote: > when ken and i described the new features we were proposing for plan 9 C, > including inherited structure elements, to bjarne stroustrup, he said, "if you > want C++ you know where to find it." and stormed from the room. > > i don't think he understood exactly why we were proposing these features. > > -rob > I would like you to give us the reasons for these features and why you didn't use C++ and i hope the answer won't start a C vs C++ debate at 9fans :-) Spyros