Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 08:21:50AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote:
> > BTW, I'm still in the dark about why not use OO for libraries such as
> > this (Graphic toolkits).
>
> QT is C++ and OO. For GTK+, they developed their own system
> of containers and objects so they won't have to use C++
> (and community people tend to hate C++).
Qt indeed uses C++ but AFAIK not very well. No templates, no STL and
little use of things like multiple inheritance . Now I can hear all you
hard core C programers saying to yourselves: "why, you say it like it's
a bad thing?!" but I think that if someone is using C++, at least she
should do it well.
And I don't think the community doesn't like C++ either. I do think
that:
a. Free C++ compilers that support all of the features of the language
did not exists and a big gap existed between the support that existed on
various platform. This has changed by now, though.
b. Linux and other Free OS adopted the UNIX mentality of building small
tools that do one thing and do it well. For small tools like that C++
(and the OO paradigm) is a waste of time. But times have changed, our
programs grew and the event driven nature of GUI programing lends itself
quite well to OOP/OOD.
Gilad, who fell asleep 3 times in five minutes while trying to read
"Design Patterns" ;-)
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