On Sat, 1 December 2007 21:59:31 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> Object orientation in C leaves much to be desired; see the huge number
> of void pointers and container_of()s in the kernel.
While true, this isn't such a bad problem. A language really sucks when
it tries to disallow something useful. Back in university I was forced
to write system software in pascal. Simple pointer arithmetic became a
5-line piece of code.
Imo the main advantage of C is simply that it doesn't get in the way.
Jörn
--
But this is not to say that the main benefit of Linux and other GPL
software is lower-cost. Control is the main benefit--cost is secondary.
-- Bruce Perens
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