Can we start moderating this list for a while? This discussion doesn't
carry DNG forward, the people pushing it are not cognizant of basic points
of computer languages, issues of software licensing, and it's just noise
distracting the people who are doing useful work.

On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 6:23 AM David Niklas via Dng <dng@???>
wrote:

> On 09/01/2025(Mon) 21:10
> Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
> > David Niklas via Dng said on Mon, 1 Sep 2025 19:22:43 -0400
> > >On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 17:16:56 +0100
> > >ael <witwall3@???> wrote:
> >
> > >In fact, Linus Torvalds himself said he did not want object oriented
> > >C++ code in the Linux Kernel. Now we're doing OO with rust!
> >
> > I quote from the Google AI's answer to "is rust an oop language?"
> <snip>
> AI is less that 50% accurate, study:
>
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/bbc-research-into-ai-assistants.pdf
>
> I would suggest against using it for anything more but as an alternative
> to googling.
>
> As for rust being OO:
> https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch18-01-what-is-oo.html
> "There is no consensus in the programming community about what features a
> language must have to be considered object oriented. Rust is influenced
> by many programming paradigms, including OOP; "...
>
> So although you might not consider it a "full" OOP language, it does have
> OOP paradigms within it.
>
> David
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