Re: C++ in the kernel

In message <20071028074310.233895B3E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bakul Shah writes:

It will be the proverbial camel's nose in the tent. A subset
of C++ is attractive for kernel work but it will be hard to
hold the line at that.

That's one of my main arguments why we should "own the language" we
use.

The other main argument is that we can then teach the language to
do the things we need it to do.

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