Re: Time to rewrite dpkg
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 04:12:51PM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> Ideally, a library would (in addition to it's C++ functionality) have
> a C interface that doesn't really deal with the issue of objects.
> Say, something that would accept some standard C types and structs,
> and return same.
in other words, the sensible thing to do is to write a C library and
also write a C++ wrapper for it (as well as perl, python, java, scheme,
guile, or whatever wrappers).
this is a never-ending debate, it pops up again and again but IMO, C is
the common language which can be interfaced to from any other language,
so C is the language of choice for general purpose libraries.
for example: this, and related reasons, is why GNOME chose C rather than
C++ as the base language for GNOME projects. Their decision was sound,
and their reasons were sound.
craig
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craig sanders
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