On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:56:13AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Dave Held" <dave.held@arrayservicesgrp.com> writes:
> > Yeah, that's good news too, though it definitely helps that
> > Postgres is written in C. Most of the conformance improvements
> > are in the C++ front-end and the C++ Standard Library. Still
> > no export though. I personally believe that projects should
> > move to C++ when possible, but I understand that there is still
> > a perception that C is fundamentally faster.
>
> I dunno about "fundamentally faster", but "fundamentally more stable"
> I'd agree with. C++ has never recovered from being a moving target
> for so long. For a project with any serious ambitions of portability,
> it's a pretty risky choice.
Why don't we rewrite Postgres in D?
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/
:-D
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