Re: [bug-grep] search.c clean-up

[Paul Eggert]

Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> writes:

> C++ is widespread enough that it might not be unreasonable to move towards
> it, esp. for some of the smaller GNU apps.

For low-level stuff C is fine.  Otherwise, I'd far rather use Java, or
Python, or half-a-dozen other languages.  They have all benefited from
hindsight that evolved from C++'s mistakes.

Any major move to depart from C should be by consensus (e.g., the GNU
Coding Standards should get revised).

Just for fun, here's a complete implementation of POSIX uniq written
in Python.

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/classes/spring04/cs131/hw/uniq.py