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Re: FW: Python bindings -noproxy flag

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2003-05-09 00:14:29 CEST

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 06:08 PM, Jeff Cave wrote:

> Just out of curiosity and while talking about object orientedness...
>
> Is there a reason that C was chosen, over C++, for svn?

among other reasons, portability and ubiquity. ansi c will run almost
anywhere, and you can call into c from almost any other language. in
addition, there are a massive pool of skilled c programmers out there
in the open source community, but finding skilled c++ programmers is
not as easy.

-garrett

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