From: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] About Unix header files
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:00:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201808222200.w7MM0FoO025334@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
> Has anyone experimented with building Unix using C++, to take
advantage of strong typing? My guess is no--it would be a Herculean
task likely to introduce more bugs than it would fix.
How Unix didn't get written in C++:
When Bjarne Stroustrup joined Bell Labs, he hoped to write an
operating system, but he wanted to do it in an object oriented
language, so he took a small detour to make an object-oriented
sibling of C. That turned out to be a maelstrom from which he
never escaped.
Doug
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2018-08-22 22:00 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2018-08-22 23:05 ` Erik E. Fair
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2018-08-21 4:55 Caipenghui
2018-08-21 6:00 ` Warren Toomey
2018-08-21 21:37 ` Cornelius Keck
2018-08-22 13:44 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-08-22 15:29 ` Paul Winalski
2018-08-22 15:36 ` Caipenghui
2018-08-22 15:46 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-08-22 15:52 ` G. Branden Robinson
2018-08-22 15:56 ` Paul Winalski
2018-08-22 16:04 ` Dan Cross
2018-08-23 2:23 ` George Michaelson
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