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Re: Move GDB to C++ ?
Vladimir Prus wrote:
I think you're falling into a trap common for planning large transitions.
It seems reasonable to prepare of list of points, and compare alternatives
on each point. However, I never saw this work,
I have seen it work many times, and managed several transitions of
this type ...
Most transitions I saw involved:
1. A few folks pushing for specific solution that improves on the current
status quo.
2. Other folks expressing opinions like "we absolutely need XXX"
Sounds like they were badly mismanaged
So, here, what are your most important concerns? Do you see those concerns can
be mitigated, or not?
The problem is the book named "The C++ Programming Language" went through at
least 3 revisions, presumably with extra help of professional editors. Do we want
to beat that? And why newcomers who already read this book should read the
documentation for our non-standard mechanisms.
Well I don't know the code well enough, but what exactly do you mean
by non-standard here---not conforming to the C standard??? The GDB code
I *have* looked at all seems like fairly standard C to me!
- Volodya