On 03/29/2018 12:56 AM, Andre Groenewald wrote: > The heart of GCC should remain pure C as far as possible, for the very > same reason the Linux kernel is only in C. Deviate from this, and in a > few years we will end up with Java as the programming language of GCC. > > It is the duty of the steering community and our leaders in GCC to be > very conservative in this regard. > > Please I don't want to oppose someone’s proposal, I want the people to > understand reason of being conservative in this regard, because they > will end up being the leaders of GCC in the following generations. > > GCC steering community I count on you and speaking behalf other > developers to keep GCC as close to C as possible for at least the next > 1000 years. We've already made a decision to use C++ when it makes sense. That ship sailed years ago.
jeff
