Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3103 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2003.02.01 14:38 Derek Fountain wrote:
> I don't know but C++ is the defacto choice for most applications
> development
> these days.

I beg to differ. C is still a huge language, gtk, motif et al use C.
Objective C I think is the language of choice on Apple platforms.

Microsoft and KDE use c++, that's true.

> All KDE programs, as far as I know, are C++. Yes there's
> bindings
> for other languages, but who uses them?

Why are they created and maintained? I'm sure someone does. The PyGtk
and PyQt bindings are popular, and I'm sure the perl bindings have
supporters

> If porting apps to Linux means rewriting all the C++ ones in C, not
> much is
> going to get ported. If desktop Linux is going to be taken seriously,
> the
> problem of portability of applications between distros and versions of
>
> distros needs to be fixed.

It can be done. Show me the (modern) platform that can't run the 
Netscape
binary download, for example. OpenOffice.org? Opera? I'm sure it fails
somewhere but by far the most can run them as is

C++ is currently not included in the LSB, that's all C as far as I can 
see.

Anders