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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Concern about Rust adoption in the Linux kernel
Le 02/09/2025 à 23:29, Steve Litt a écrit :
> Can we all please stop saying C/C++ and stop implying that C and C++
> are similar? C is a wonderful hardware-independent assembly language
> capable of doing anything allowed by the OS. Its only downside is that
> without extreme carefulness, the compiled C program will have bugs that
> could be catastrophically dangerous.
>
> C++ is a horribly botched attempt to bolt Object Orientation onto C, to
> make C something it was never intended to be.


    I fully agree with you about the languages. My point was only about
the toolchain. Ada has an extra step: binding, between compiling and
linking.

--     Didier