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[gtk-list] Re: Why is gtk+ written in C?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Havoc Pennington)
Tue Oct 13 14:05:41 1998
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:01:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: Havoc Pennington <rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu>
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On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Eric Harlow wrote:
>
> One of the questions I got asked is "Why is gtk+ written in C?" This
> was asked because widgets in gtk "inherit" the capability of other
> widgets and it seems natural to think of it in terms of C++. Not
> having been through the original thinking and design, I was wondering
> if someone could give me a brief (or not so brief) reason why it's
> written in C instead of C++.
>
- portability
- author preference
- customizable object system which allows bindings to other languages,
including C++ (Gtk--)
- Unix default language
Havoc
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