On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, l l wrote:> 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.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 -- http://nondot.org/sabre/ http://llvm.org/
2006/8/17, Chris Lattner <sabre at nondot.org>:> LLVM is written primarily in C++, for a variety of reasons,Hi, Please give me one reason, Btw, emacs is fine with lisp, c and eclipse is fine with Java. That was interesting fact to me.
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, l l wrote:> 2006/8/17, Chris Lattner <sabre at nondot.org>: >> LLVM is written primarily in C++, for a variety of reasons, > Hi, > > Please give me one reason,ok, I like BCPL comments.> Btw, emacs is fine with lisp, c and eclipse is fine with Java. > That was interesting fact to me.Please stop, this is totally off-topic for this list. -Chris -- http://nondot.org/sabre/ http://llvm.org/