[asterisk-dev] Why not C++?

[Matthew Rubenstein]

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 09:12 -0600, asterisk-dev-request at lists.digium.com
wrote:
> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:18:26 +0100
> From: Christian <crich-ml at beronet.com>
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] Why not C++?
> To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
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> 
> > So the word of end is that:
> > If you target at getting more contributors for open-source
> community 
> > turn-it into PHP :) (but be aware of what you will get)
> >   
> 
> I vote for Ruby and for a new paradigm which we need to invent to 
> prevent "design consideration" (like MVC for GUIs). The paradigm
> itself 
> would contain the design considerations ;-)

	There's a big difference between "voting" for a rewrite of Asterisk in
your favorite language, and *rewriting it yourself*, which is what the
person starting this thread suggested.

	The best reason to do anything with open source is "because I want to
myself", counted against whether there's any good reasons not to do it.
-- 

(C) Matthew Rubenstein