[Daramarak]

Thanks, nice to read a sober judgment of the situation. As a both a C and C++ programmer I really appreciate your point. I would however argue that some effort should be done to enable the possibility to create some common culture. I am sure that some unbiased eyes could find subprojects where c++ (or other compiled oo/functional languages) would be better suited than c. I strongly believe that the paradigms all have their uses, and that in time the Linux project would be more powerful if it used the technology available. After all, isn't that one of the great strengths of openness?