Re: Time to rewrite dpkg
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 12:47:59AM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho said:
> > On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 03:01:12PM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
> > > Polymorphism is such an obvious pillar of structured programming that I
> > > can't understand how anybody could live without it.
> >
> > Agreed. Too bad C++ does not support parametric polymorphism too well.
> > Templates come close, so the hope is not lost.
> But the problem is that templates, nor exceptions or rtti (which are all
> elements of MODERN C++ programming) don't work well enough on the GNU
> platform...
Is that true, I have heard this agrument often, but is it true, and is it still
so today ? Is there effort made to fix this ? how far are they ?
I just want to be sure this is true before people start using this as argument
without even checking if things still are like that.
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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