Ignorance at work [LWN.net]

Ignorance at work

Posted Oct 16, 2010 11:07 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: My advice on implementing stuff in C: by HelloWorld
Parent article: Russell: On C Library Implementation

Oh, another victim of the C hacker syndrome.

I have read until the 5th line:

"[Linus'] opposition to any programming paradigms and concepts related to those paradigms which are not possible or very awkward to use in C. These include things like object-oriented design, abstraction, etc."

... which immediately helped me stop wasting my time.

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Ignorance at work

Posted Oct 19, 2010 10:32 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

There's no object-oriented design or abstraction evident in the kernel until you look really deep into it, like the directory structure or the header files.

(oops)

Ignorance at work

Posted Oct 25, 2010 1:00 UTC (Mon) by vonbrand (guest, #4458) [Link] (1 responses)

Au contraire, it is very evident each time you take a peek a device drivers, filesystems, ...

It is in operating systems (and then simulation) where OOP was first used...

Ignorance at work

Posted Oct 25, 2010 6:54 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Exactly my point. :)