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[gtk-list] Re: Why is gtk+ written in C?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn T . Amundson)
Tue Oct 13 14:56:40 1998
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:54:37 -0700
From: "Shawn T . Amundson" <amundson@gimp.org>
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In-Reply-To: <19981013174328.26069.rocketmail@send1d.yahoomail.com>; from Eric Harlow on Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:43:28AM -0700
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On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:43:28AM -0700, 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++.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Eric
>
One could speculate that GTK+ is written in C because it was written
for GIMP, and GIMP is written in C.
I'm guessing any other points are probably not so fundemental to the
actual decision.
--
Shawn T. Amundson
amundson@gimp.org http://www.gimp.org/~amundson
"The assumption that the universe looks the same in every
direction is clearly not true in reality." - Stephen Hawking
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