Walter Bright wrote:
When you've built up such a store in one language, it would take an incredible push to change.
Linux kernel is a large monolithic monster, one single bug can bring the system down. So considering this, Linus is right. He afraid of one single language feature may be the source of myriad of bugs, just because the language allows to use it, and assuming the worst case - everybody will misuse the feature as they always do.
-- Alex Makhotin, the founder of BITPROX, http://bitprox.com
