llvm dev - Aug 2006 - [LLVMdev] Re: why c++?

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Hi,

sorry, just hit the enter key by accident.
Anyway, why was llvm was written in c++?

c and python, c and ocaml, c and java i would more prefer.

I am not a flamethrower(sorry again if it was.) Just another newbie.

TIA




2006/8/17, l l <happyarch at gmail.com>:
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, l l wrote:
> sorry, just hit the enter key by accident.
> Anyway, why was llvm was written in c++?
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> c and python, c and ocaml, c and java i would more prefer.
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> I am not a flamethrower(sorry again if it was.) Just another newbie.
If you want to write a new compiler, you're free to do it in a language of 
your choice.  LLVM is written primarily in C++, for a variety of reasons, 
and we don't plan to change that soon.  This list is not the appropriate 
place to discuss the virtues of one language over another.

-Chris

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