Re: Linux kernel modules development in C++

[Igmar Palsenberg]

> > Tell my teacher it's a good idea, he is telling otherwise :)
> 
>    Teaching people to UNDERSTAND and THINK in OO methods can help
>    in several problems.  There is no absolute requirement that
>    final implementations are done in any sort of OO languages.
> 
>    .. any language with structures, data- and function pointers
>    is trivially yieldable to do OO things.
> 
>    All it takes is to have some discipline, and a way of thinking
>    to make object oriented C.  (Without templates, and exceptions
>    perhaps, but object anyway.)
> 
> 
>    Most people seem to think that having syntactic sugar coating
>    everything is a must for an OO language.  I don't feel so, but
>    I begun with USCD p-system Pascal, continued with CLU(ster),
>    and finally learned C.
> 
>    Of those, CLU is full of sugar, all ideas that are presented
>    as "new" in C++ I have exploited in CLU back in late 1980es.
>    (And I mean *all*, exceptions and templates included!)
>    (But back then I used 36 bit mainframes by Digital..)

Agree. Using a OO design can make think a lot easier. I'm mostly using
plain C because that what I'm used to.  



        Igmar

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