Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

> The Linux kernel (and the majority of Free software projects)
> are doing it all wrong?

Does the kernel have a GUI? Not really ... except ... xconfig is coded using C++, in Qt3 oder Qt4, depending on the kernel version.

The kernel code itself is full of object oriented designs, be it the kobjects, SCSI, ATA, DMA, MMU and almost all of the low level drivers as well, be it inheritance, virtual functions, inline functions, member functions, namespaces, etc. It all has to be programmed in C, Motif did and does something similar, resulting in code that's not readable that much.

One of Linus' arguments also was that many programmers just do not know how to code in C++. Then my question is, following this argumentation, why's the kernel not written using compiled BASIC? ;)

The argument C is good to piss of bad C++ programmers is only acceptable because Linus "invented" Linux, because there are at least as many good C++ programmers as there are C programmers.

Of course you can create bad designs using C++, but when I look at horrible macro constructs to circumvent C's shortcomings, the you'll have to admit, that the language itself is no reason to create or avoid horrible designs.