[Libssh] Enhancements proposals

Juergen Schoenwaelder j.schoenwaelder at jacobs-university.de
Fri Feb 29 14:03:02 CET 2008


On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:03:46PM +0100, Aris Adamantiadis wrote:

> good. A lot of C users have prejudges on C++ : it is slow and bloated. 
> The same people who have dual core 2gb systems who complains C++ has a 
> large footprint...
> The same people who will be whining if I link to Glib to have OO support 
> in C.
> It's 2008 now. The only reason to develop new projects in C today is 
> backward compatability and special environments. The "nobody does that" 
> is a logical fallacy - this reasonment is an "ad populi" fallacy + the 
> fact that if no protocol library is in C++, it's because they were 
> almost all developped at a moment there were good reasons not to do them 
> in C++.

It seems you want to learn your own lesson. So please go full steam
ahead. But please let those who care about the C library evolve it as
needed.

/js

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