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Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
- From: Fabio Alemagna <falemagn at studenti dot unina dot it>
- To: <tm_gccmail at mail dot kloo dot net>
- Cc: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>, <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>, <zack at codesourcery dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <mrs at apple dot com>, <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 22:07:26 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Putting C++ code into gcc front end
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 tm_gccmail at mail dot kloo dot net wrote:
> I personally think having parts of GCC written in C++ is a bad idea,
> as it forces people to know Yet Another Language in addition to
> C, shell scripts, sed, makefiles, etc.
Often it's easier to learn YAL rather than trying to understand code which
is in a bad shape due to the fact that the proper language wasn't used.
I'm sorry to say that the latter is the gcc's case in many parts of it.
Fabio Alemagna