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Regarding Re: Gnu widget set for X?; songer@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu (Christopher M Songer) adds:

> All humor aside, it is OK, but there are some major shortcomings
> too. I think a GNU widget set would be quite appropriate.

I think a GNU library to simplify producing X11 applications would be
a great idea but an Xt based GNU widget set would be a mistake.
Simply, the idea of producing a monstrous, overweight intrinsics
library based on clumsily trying to imitate object oriented
programming in C was a mistake.  The mistake has gotten worse and more
obvious as time has gone on and we've all gathered experience.
Several existence proofs that there are better ways to go:

    1. Tk from John Osterhout.
    2. Interviews
    3. An unnamed (since this is a gnu group) commercial C++ class
       library that does a good job of fully supporting both Open Look
       and Motif.

Yes, the last two require C++.  Big deal, the GNU project does have
g++ after all...

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