“It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style”

—  Linus Torvalds

About the C programming language, vs. C++
Re: RFC Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library., 7 Sep 2007, gmane.comp.version-control.git, 12 Sep 2012 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57957,
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