From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on inbox.vuxu.org
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,
	MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no
	version=3.4.1
Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53])
	by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id dfc30c03
	for <ml@inbox.vuxu.org>;
	Wed, 22 Aug 2018 22:00:48 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112)
	id DF688A1B20; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:00:46 +1000 (AEST)
Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 583A3A1A94;
	Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:00:22 +1000 (AEST)
Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112)
 id 39D8CA1A94; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:00:20 +1000 (AEST)
Received: from mail.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (mail.cs.dartmouth.edu [129.170.212.100])
 by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5561FA1A89
 for <tuhs@tuhs.org>; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:00:18 +1000 (AEST)
Received: from tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (tahoe.cs.dartmouth.edu [129.170.212.20])
 by mail.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id w7MM0F8F013763
 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO)
 for <tuhs@tuhs.org>; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:00:15 -0400
Received: from tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
 by tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (8.15.2/8.14.3) with ESMTP id w7MM0FZi025335
 for <tuhs@tuhs.org>; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:00:15 -0400
Received: (from doug@localhost)
 by tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id w7MM0FoO025334
 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:00:15 -0400
From: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Message-Id: <201808222200.w7MM0FoO025334@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:00:15 -0400
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: [TUHS] About Unix header files
X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20
Precedence: list
List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs.minnie.tuhs.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/tuhs>,
 <mailto:tuhs-request@minnie.tuhs.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/>
List-Post: <mailto:tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
List-Help: <mailto:tuhs-request@minnie.tuhs.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tuhs>,
 <mailto:tuhs-request@minnie.tuhs.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org
Sender: "TUHS" <tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org>

> 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