Collation implementation

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Mon Jun 19 08:59:00 GMT 2000


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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