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[gtk-list] Re: Why is gtk+ written in C?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Stone)
Tue Oct 13 20:38:55 1998
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 09:38:03 +0900 (JST)
From: Scott Stone <sstone@ume.pht.co.jp>
To: Brandon Long <blong@fiction.net>
cc: gtk-list@redhat.com
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On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Brandon Long wrote:
> 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.
Note, however, that the libstdc++ that comes with egcs is far less buggy
than the standard gnu libstdc++, and we don't even need to talk about
libg++, which should by now hopefully have been stamped out of existance.
However, I always statically link against libstdc++ when I'm forced to use
it, because, as you said, with each new version... at least the egcs folks
acknowledge this and warn you about it :)
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