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"Kevin L. Suffecool" <kevin@ics.com> writes:

> 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.

The point here is that the same or more functionality could have been
achieved with less size/bloat if the design had been better.  Or not.

> 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.

And if it doesn't, all of the Java "dudez" will leave it and take
on to the next "c00l" language that we all MUST learn.  The "let's
stick to C" comments aren't just the idiocy of the fanatics -- most of
them represent the view of the situation, which is that C++ probably
offers more faults than advantages.

Mr. Allen is probably quite competent to make his own decision about
that, anyway.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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