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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:36:49 +0100
From: "Karol Swietlicki" <magotari@gmail.com>
To: Ben.Crowhurst@stellatravel.co.uk
Subject: Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C
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On 30/11/2007, Ben Crowhurst <Ben.Crowhurst@stellatravel.co.uk> wrote:
> Lo?c Greni? wrote:
> > 2007/11/29, Ben Crowhurst <Ben.Crowhurst@stellatravel.co.uk>:
> >
> >> Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development?
> >>

<snip>

> >     Lots of people will think of better reasons why ObjC is not used...
> >
> >         Lo?c Greni?
> >
> Which I'm looking forward to hear :)
>
> Thank you for your appropriate response.

Here are a few reasons off the top of my head:
1. Adding extra unneeded complexity. Debugging would be harder.
2. Not many people can code ObjC when compared to the number of C coders.
3. If it ain't broken... Why fix it. The kernel works, right? Good.

You can find a great explanation somewhere out there, I'm not sure who
wrote it and the thing was explaining why C++ is not a great choice
for the Linux kernel. Some things going against C++ will also go
against ObjC. I cannot find it, but it is out there somewhere.

I'm a newbie and I might be wrong, but the above is what I believe to be true.

Karol Swietlicki
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