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Re: Collation implementation
- To: Dietmar Kuehl <dietmar_kuehl at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: Collation implementation
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 19 Jun 2000 08:58:47 -0700
- Cc: libstdc++ at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000619112544.25342.qmail@web701.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Dietmar Kuehl <dietmar_kuehl@yahoo.com> writes:
> I know that Ulrich Drepper has a different idea how to address this
> issue but I don't share his view, especially in the light that I think
> the right way is to base the standard C library on the standard C++
> library and not vice versa
Get real. You never ever want to base everything else on a C++
library. This is a horrendous stupidity. C++ brings not only an
unstable API, it also introduces a huge amount of overhead (code,
data, initialization).
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