Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:34:45 -0500
To: Ben Crowhurst <Ben.Crowhurst@stellatravel.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:14:16PM +0000, Ben Crowhurst wrote:
> Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development?

Doesn't objective C essentially require a runtime to provide a lot of
the features of the language?  If it does (as I suspect) then it is
totally unsiatable for kernel development.

That and object oriented languages in general are badly designed and a
bad idea.  Having not used objective C I have no idea if it qualifies as
badly designed or not.  Certainly C++ and java are both very badly
designed.

Besides the kernel does a wonderful job doing object oriented design
where apropriate using C without any of the stupidities added by the
common OO languages.

--
Len Sorensen
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