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Well, the operating system you used to write that comment was probably written in C, so apparently it does in fact work in large projects. It has weaknesses to

Well, the operating system you used to write that comment was probably written in C, so apparently it does in fact work in large projects. It has weaknesses to be sure, but I don't think lack of OO (I.e., structs with functions) is one of them.

dllthomas 14y ago
Particularly given that you can write OO code in C, and can decorate structs with functions, it's just messier.
- StephenFalken 14y ago
  "Object oriented programming with ANSI-C": https://ritdml.rit.edu/handle/1850/8544 https://ritdml.rit.edu/handle/1850/8544
jbooth 14y ago
Duh. "Done" and "easily done" are different things. Structs with functions isn't the biggest deal, and namespaces can be simulated with a couple underscores. But I have a hard time with error handling if you don't have exceptions, any time I have a call stack more than 3-4 deep I find myself confused about how to treat certain errors. Then there's concurrency.
tedunangst 14y ago
It's worth noting that the bulk of the code in the kernel comes from 900 different network drivers, each of which could be considered a small program in its own right.