Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

[psu25682@odin.cc.pdx.edu (Karl M. Hegbloom)]

>>>>> "Marek" == Marek Habersack <grendel@vip.net.pl> writes:

    Marek> * 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.
    Marek> But the problem is that templates, nor exceptions or rtti
    Marek> (which are all elements of MODERN C++ programming) don't
    Marek> work well enough on the GNU platform...

 So someone should learn enough about that to implement it in the GNU
 compiler, huh.  I plan to make that my area of study... maybe if
 noone beats me to it, I'll work on that in five or six years. ;-)


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