Breaking backwards compatiblity

Alex Rønne Petersen xtzgzorex at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 00:53:23 PST 2012


On 10-03-2012 01:15, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 01:02:35AM +0100, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> Linus would probably hate D just as much as he hates C++. :p
>
> Yeah... I can just imagine his eye scanning the description of D and
> stopping right at the word "GC", and immediately writing a flaming
> vitriolic post to LKML about how a GC is the absolutely worst thing one
> could possibly conceive of putting inside a kernel, and that any kernel
> developer caught flirting with the idea of using D ought to have all
> kernel patches ignored from that point on.
>
> :-)
>
>
> T
>

In all fairness, a stop-the-world GC in a kernel probably *is* a 
horrible idea.

-- 
- Alex


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