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