implementation language [was: library for unicode collation in C for texi2any?]

[Per Bothner]

On 10/12/23 02:39, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> There is a translation to C of texi2any code going on, for the future,
> after the next release, mainly for the conversion to HTML in a first step.

I've always thought that C++ is the obvious implementation language for 
texi2any.
The structure of the Perl code is probably a lot easier and cleaner to map into 
C++
(using classes and simple single inheritance) than to plain C.

C++ has a more extensive and useful standard library than C.

One data point: Gcc was converted to C++ some years ago.

Re-writing texi2any in Perl turns out to have been a mistake; switching to C
seems like it would be another mistake. But hey - I'm not the one doing the 
work.
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