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> On 9 Aug 2019, at 19:02, Mark Randall <mar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/08/2019 08:15, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>> You seem to believe that C++ is inherently superior to C. And it's
>> entirely within your right.
>> However, there are projects - to this date - that prefer C to C++ for a
>> variety of reasons. PHP is one of them, and others include the Linux
>> kernel, redis, nginx, and actually - the vast majority of the fundamental
>> pieces of OS infrastructure our planet runs on. This isn't just for
>> historical reasons - it has to do with a variety of reasons, and the
>> simplicity of C is one of them.
>
> I just wanted to amend a bit of present day context, as it happens, security
> management at Microsoft is currently giving serious consideration to moving
> away from C / C++ and on to memory safe languages because of the benefits
> they bring.
Regardless of whether or not it’d happen - this has nothing to do with the
point at hand. It’s not whether C and C++ are good or bad. It’s about the
concept of introducing a sister language that provides new capabilities and
certain different behaviors, rather than changing the original one.
We’re not arguing whether PHP/P++ are good, we’re discussing whether it makes
sense to introduce a sister language to PHP.
Zeev
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