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Marc van Kempen wrote:
> 
> [Posted and mailed]
> 
> In article <E6vBxI.MtG@world.std.com>,
>         jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen) writes:
>
>>  [stuff about new free-ware widget library deleted...
>
> My thoughts exactly, I think we are being bombarded to death by C++
> libraries, but are essentially lacking any good straight C libraries.
> 
> Motif/Xaw/Xt is too complicated and too bloated
> XForms comes without source, but with a GUI-designer (big plus)
> Others that I have tried are visually simply too unappealing.
> 

#define RANT_MODE

Big boys need "complicated" and "bloated" widget libraries like
Motif, and frameworks like Xt, to build and design "complicated"
and demanding applications.  If anything, in my 10+ years of 
GUI development, I've often wished Xt/Motif had even *more*
functionality.  Are you going to build your house with bricks
or with particle board?

And regarding all of these "let's stick to straight C" comments,
geesh people; get out of the stone age.  If Java *does* in fact
become the future GUI-application language of choice (due to its
platform independancy), all of you "C" fanatics are going to have
to do some major cramming to join the rest of us in the O-O world.

#undef RANT_MODE

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