Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:02:08 +0300
From: Aleksander Alekseev <a.alekseev@postgrespro.ru>
To: Yury Zhuravlev <u.zhuravlev@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] C++ port of Postgres
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> Two big projects lately move to C++ from C:
> GCC, Mesa
> 
> You can read their reasons.
> Only C++ we can use without full rewrite currently. (or ObjectC maybe)
> If we wish fix C limitations. 
> 

I would like just to leave this link here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

Long story short - no one cares who did what in other projects.
Recently I rewrote my OpenGL demo [1] from C++ to C. Uber recently
moved from PostgreSQL to MySQL. It proves literally nothing.

[1] https://github.com/afiskon/c-opengl-text/

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev


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