From: jjenning@... (jared l. jennings)
Date: 2001-07-24T08:39:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18394] Re: Ruby as opposed to Python?

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:29:15AM +0900, MikkelFJ wrote:
> 
> Despite my previous point, I do not really approve the GTK approach. Why on
> earth not implement the stuff in C++ when that is what you are trying to do.
> Choose the right language for the right job. The Fox toolkit deliberately
> chose C++ for that reason.

the reason the gtk people chose C (it's on their site somewhere) is so that GTK+ would be more portable. Sane implementations of C exist on more platforms than C++, C++ has no ABI (fixed in gcc 3.0, but not in any ISO standards or anything), and i think they had in mind people wrapping it in their favorite languages. and most extensible languages are more easily extensible in C. or something.

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