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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!jshark!joe From: joe@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk (Joe Sharkey) Subject: Re: Release of drivers etc. Organization: Individual Network (UK) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 21:04:01 GMT Message-ID: <C3Bzup.CC7@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk> References: <18685@umd5.umd.edu> <1993Feb26.084810.15566@gmd.de> <RICH.93Feb26094352@omicron.Rice.edu> Lines: 21 In article <RICH.93Feb26094352@omicron.Rice.edu> Rich@Rice.edu writes: >In article <1993Feb26.084810.15566@gmd.de> veit@fanoe.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes: > |> 3. add a C++ calling convention. > This is acceptable. To clarify: I am aiming at the calling interface which is > already "object-oriented", though in C. I do not want to convert all the driver code > into C++, just because it is a nice language. You can write quite nice C++ code > >Another motivation for using C++ is strong typing and all the compile >time checking that goes with it. Rich Heretical thought: Let's do this properly, and re-write the whole mess in Ada ;) Oh, all right: Modula-3. joe. -- Joe Sharkey joe@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk ...!uunet!ibmpcug!jshark!joe 150 Hatfield Rd, St Albans, Herts AL1 4JA, UK Got a real domain name (+44) 727 838662 Mail/News Feeds (v32/v32bis): info@inet-uk.co.uk