On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:30:39 +0000 (GMT), Carlos A M dos Santos wrote:
>Motif has many features that are not used because using them requires
>knowing X, Xt, etc. Most of the free software written as "open source" is
>made by weekend programmers, this is the problem, IMO. [...]
What's the problem here?!?
I have no problems with those nice toolkits which enables one to write
a simple GUI app (some fancy dialogs and e.g. a displayed bitmap)
in <<50 lines ...
>> (but may be: too big, too hard to code/use, no fancy default look, no
>> C++, etc.)
>
>"Too big" is a changing concept. For the current standards, Motif is
>small. WRT C++, it's also a matter of taste. Pure C code is still much
>more portable than C++ and some programmers, like me, dislike C++.
Hmm.
No need to discuss this in length but I think it would have been a good
idea (for Motif) to further go in the C++ direction. I rarely mess around with
C++ but even with small C++ apps it's sometimes a pain to get the
C bindings done properly.
And obviously C++ is still increasing it's market share - at least compared
to C (in my opinion - I have no data about this)
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Alexander Mai
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