Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

[Sven LUTHER <luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 10:03:12AM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote:
> Hi Anthony,
>  > And I don't particularly think it's much of a gain to say "You want
>  > access to dpkg's internals? Just use C++!". C++ is all well and good,
>  > but it's not *that* good.
> 
> Hrm.  I would have to disagree with you.  Using object oriented
> techniques certainly makes things easier to maintain, extend and debug.
> Using object oriented "design patterns" (see any good book on OO design
> patterns), for example, makes code much easier to understand and/or
> implement.

Please don't go into the C++ vs C flamewar here, ...

it is as possible to do bad and unmaintainable code in C++ as it is
possible to do good and maintainable code in C or another not OO
language.

what you need is good design, not some magic language to write nice
code.

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER