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[gtk-list] Re: Why is gtk+ written in C?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Long)
Tue Oct 13 14:27:43 1998
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:25:27 -0700
From: Brandon Long <blong@fiction.net>
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In-Reply-To: <19981013181407.21220.rocketmail@send1d.yahoomail.com>; from Eric Harlow on Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 11:14:07AM -0700
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On 10/13/98 Eric Harlow uttered the following other thing:
>
> Isn't C++ portable?
> Couldn't GTK have been written C++ with bindings to other languages?
Under Unix? Not really. Until recently, C++ wasn't standardized, and
as such, different compilers provide different levels of
compatibility. Its been said that each version of g++ is broken in
different ways. Recall that gcc is a cathedral project, and the rate of
change is rather slow.
Most languages provide for binding interfaces using C, and I imagine
that languages without objects would be hard to bind to C++. Also, the
object model of C++ is rather limited in some ways, which would make
binding to other object models more difficult.
Brandon
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