Why isn't GDB designed and implemented by using Object-Oriented methodology?

[xingxing pan]

Actually, what I want to say is that coding is different from design.

2010/6/17 Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>:
> Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>>>
>>>> When meeting so many structs and function pointer in the source codes,
>>>> dose anyone have the thought to redesign and implement GDB using
>>>> Object-Oriented  methodology?
>>>
>>> See the last discussion:
>>>        Move GDB to C++ ?
>>>        http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-07/msg00077.html
>>>        http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-08/msg00004.html
>>
>> One can develop software using "Object Oriented *methodology*" without
>> using a language that implements classes. An object is, at its simplest,
>> data and methods.
>
> Interesting to see this definition take hold, very different from
> the classical (e.g. Simula) view of objects. To me data+methods =
> abstract data type.
>