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Re: new free widget library

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From: Bo
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 00:00
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jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen) writes:

>the big one, IMHO)).  The reason for this post is to get people's opinions
>on the current programming interface.  The widget library is written in
>standard K&R UNIX C, but in an object oriented style which would allow easy
>translation to C++.  My question is should I stick with the greater

Stick  with  C.  There's enough C++ GUI libs available (Qt,V,Amulet,etc)
already.  This  wouldn't  have to be a problem if it wasn't for the fact
that  C++  sucks.  I'm still hoping that one day Perl, Java, C++ and all
the  other  hypy  crap languages "that you MUST learn" will simply cease
to exist. Today its XXX, tomorrow it's YYY. Who cares. Anyway :)

>written in K&R C, and is widely portable.  However, the widget library is
>object oriented and would be somewhat more straightforward to use if it was
>coded in C++.

Maybe.  Not  if  you  aren't really a C++ expert. I know enough of it to
see  that  I  don't like it. Did I mention I'm only speaking for myself?
I am :)

>library.  Now I realize that this is a duplication of other work, but I
>think other projects are too far away from the bare-bones UNIX/C programming
>that we UNIX hackers like (and are likely to use in practice).

Hear hear.

[rest deleted]

It looks nice to me. I've got the following questions.

1) are there any good docs on it? 
2) got some demo's on a webpage somewhere?
3) what will be the copying policy?

Best regards,
		Bo	
-- 
		"Heisenberg may have been here".
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From: Bo <bo@bikerider.com>
Subject: Re: new free widget library
Date: 1997/03/12
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