[openbeos] Re: Updating OSes bit by bit

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:49:44PM +0200, Linus Sarnhult wrote:
> 
> >thinnking. the only problem with linux is that (and BeOS shares somewhat 
> >the same problem) it is based on c++ (or c) which is the source of many, 
> >many problems with improper programming. writing a program in c++ is one 
> >thing, making it stable another but making it really good is a masterpiece.
> >anyways. i see that i'm producing a war in here because of this simple 
> >statement i throw into it. don't be offended. open source has the idea of 
> >allowing all to participate. it just does not define in what sense.
> 
> Ehm... BeOS got pascal, asm and even basic compilers.. doesn't it?

And Perl and Python. I don't know about Lisp or O'Caml, but porting them
probably wouldn't be terribly hard. And recent GCC has support for Ada,
Fortran, and Java, though getting GCC 3.2+ on BeOS will be tough due to the C++
ABI incompatabilities between 3.x and 2.95.x.

Personally I think C++ is a fairly good language for systems-level code, and if
reasonably well done is not hard to write or maintain, but that's just my
opinion. <shrug> For a lot of applications, something like Python makes more
sense, though.

Jack

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