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From: | Hans Aberg |
Subject: | Re: Growing stacks in C++ |
Date: | Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:23:18 +0200 |
On 23 Jul 2010, at 18:02, Paul Eggert wrote:
I recall Paul wrote the C skeleton, and one reason for not supporting compile as C++ is that he did not want to work with C++, in addition to being complicated somehow.Although I contributed to the C skeleton, I am not its original author;I believe that honor (or dishonor) belongs to Robert Corbett.
I had only in mind the period when it was decided to not support the C skeleton compile as C++ option officially. Before that, compile as C++ was maintained for a period of time unofficially, I recall.
But you're right that I run screaming away whenever C++ is mentioned. From my (admittedly distant) point of view, every time C++ comes up, its standard seems to have mutated in some even-more-complex way. I would prefer someone else to be the C++ expert here, just as I prefer someone else to be expert in PHP, Cobol, and JCL.
So that was the reason to not support it: letting one focus on the language one is expert on.
Hans
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