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Date:      Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:42:52 +0200
From:      Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Antonio Gonz?lez Castro <agoca80@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: RFC: C version of devd daemon.
Message-ID:  <4A33668C.3080602@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090612175206.GA77895@freebsd.org>
References:  <538f43900906120823w388f1c63ic8d0194017faca6d@mail.gmail.com>	<20090612165518.GA15530@phenom.cordula.ws>	<20090612172740.GA1952@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20090612175206.GA77895@freebsd.org>

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Roman Divacky skrev:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:27:40AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:55:18AM -0600, cpghost wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 03:23:47PM +0000, Antonio Gonz?lez Castro wrote:
>>>> Hi, I'm not sure this is interesting or useful, but I translated devd daemon
>>>> from C++ to C.
>>> Why would you want to do that? IMHO, the code in
>>> /usr/src/sbin/devd/devd.cc is beautiful, concise
>>> and very readable.
>> To allow one to use an alternative compiler technology
>> to compile the system.  See, for example, clang and pcc.
> 
> clang will ultimately support C++ just fine. dont forget devd
> is not the only C++ code in our src. we also have groff and
> libstd++

Kristaps Dzonsons has been working on a groff replacement called mdocml for 
some time.  It's small compared to groff, written in C and ISC-licensed.  And 
it's fast too.  :-)

Youtube video from his presentation at AsiaBSDCon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z25FFo01Zpw

Homepage:
http://mdocml.bsd.lv/

--
Joel



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