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From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>
To: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>
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To: Adam Brusselback <adambrusselback@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] C++ port of Postgres
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 18:52:39 +0300
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On 08/16/2016 05:47 PM, Jim Nasby wrote:
> I realize there's little technical reason why we *need* C++ support. The
> level if discipline applied to our codebase negates some of the benefits
> of C++. But maintaining the discipline takes a lot of time and effort,
> and makes it more difficult to attract new contributors.

I suspect that it would take as much discipline to keep a C++ codebase 
readable, as the current C codebase. If not more.

- Heikki



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