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[gtk-list] Re: Why is gtk+ written in C?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Harlow)
Tue Oct 13 14:15:11 1998
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:14:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Eric Harlow <linuxgeek@yahoo.com>
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Isn't C++ portable?
Couldn't GTK have been written C++ with bindings to other languages?
---Havoc Pennington <rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > One of the questions I got asked is "Why is gtk+ written in C?"
>
> - portability
> - author preference
> - customizable object system which allows bindings to other
languages,
> including C++ (Gtk--)
> - Unix default language
>
> Havoc
>
>
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