> >Someone: Not being a
> >C or C++ programmer myself, I am nonetheless interested in how the parts
> >of the project would be linked together by the various contributors
> >(perhaps a naive question: if one part is written in C, and another in
> >C++, does it make things more difficult?...Or do people sometimes
> >nowadays refer to "C" and infer "C++"?).
>
> Uli: C++ is a superset of C, which means we can integrate the two without too
> much of a problem. But actually, most modern programming environments (MPW,
> CodeWarrior) allow combining all of their programming languages in one
> application, so we could theoretically write a program in all of C/C++,
> Pascal, Object Pascal, Objective C, Java, ...
>
> Uli: But I hope we won't do that, as this would increase problems for porting
> (it's rather hard to find Pascal compilers for Unix, I've been told), as
> many platforms have their preferred language, and we'd need a compiler that
> supports all of the used languages on *every* platform.
Adrian: Wouldn't it be easier if we standardised on one language?
I thought originally we'd decided to go with fully Object Oriented
code, this would imply C++ (Java is out of the question because it
doesn't compile down to machine code, whereas the rest do.)
