Andy Peters wrote: > On Aug 30, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Randall Nortman wrote: > >> C++ was a fantasically useful stepping stone from C, to bridge C >> developers into the OO world. Objective C might be better at this; I >> don't know, as I never really used it much. > > Of course on Mac OS X, Objective-C is the preferred language, so I've > had a bit of experience using it. > > Once you grok the fullness of its message-passing architecture, it > really makes a lot of sense and is, to me at least, clearer and > simpler than C++. It does away with a lot of the stuff that makes C+ > + unwieldy (like multiple inheritance). > > For a project such as gEDA, though, the language choice is probably > dictated by the language used by the GUI toolkit.
and to the degree that you care about portability. C is available everywhere. So is C++ (or at least everywhere that makes sense). That isn't always the case for some of the other languages. -Dan _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
