On Feb 22, 2012, at 12:42 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> Le 2012-02-21 à 11:12:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
>
>> If you look at all the fundamental libraries that are ported and used
>> everywhere, they are written in C. freetype, ffmpeg, iconv, libjpeg,
>> libpng, zlib, bzip2, sqlite, libquicktime, gmerlin, etc. And of course...
>> Pd :-)
>
> STL is used in more different programmes than freetype, ffmpeg, libquicktime
> and gmerlin together, and it's all written in hardcore C++.
>
> And how many apps use Qt ? That's all C++ as well.
>
> Boost is a library... no... it's a large collection of C++ libraries... how
> many programmers use it ? There are 3000 people on the mailing-list, and
> then, there are other people.
>
> What does « fundamental » mean ?
Meaning used widely and in many different programming languages. STL, Qt, and
Boost are all only used in C++. freetype, ffmpeg, iconv, libjpeg, libpng, zlib,
bzip2, sqlite, etc. have been used in many many different languages.
.hc
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