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| Subject: | Re: Is necessary to switch to C++ or some object-oriented language? |
| Poster: | Malcolm McLean |
| Date: | Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:18:08 -0500 |
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"user923005" wrote in message
> It can also be fairly difficult to port from C to C++ (if that was
> never the intention of the original authors).
> I had a notion to try with PostgreSQL, but soon realized that hundreds
> (thousands?) of hours were at stake and abandoned it.
> We did the first (that I know of) port of PostgreSQL to Win32 several
> years ago and we usually convert everything to C++ here, but that one
> was a no-go.
> The current version of PostgreSQL has some of our code in it.
>
I am sure that a C++ izer would find a ready market if anyone can be
bothered to hack into a C compiler to write one.
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