Re: Doubts About C++

[beckwb@ois.com (R. William Beckwith)]

In article <pkt-0803950829080001@lafitte.ultranet.com>, pkt@ultranet.com 
says...
>
>In article <3003357439.214087@naggum.no>, Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> 
wrote:
>
>> |   C++ has better libraries.
>> 
>> strictly speaking, this does not follow from your enumeration of 
>> libraries, which illustrates _quantity_, not _quality_.
>
>You have to start somewhere.  To have a quality library you must first
>have a library.  Almost all of the nice languages have  *no* libraries 
>listed in the PIQUI FAQ.

>>the exact opposite conclusion seems more likely.
>
>The analogy with MS-DOS is not evidence one way or the other of quality.
>Care to stick your neck out and choose a library you would use for
>platform-independent development of a GUI-oriented application?

The X Consortium is working on a platform independent, distributed
(CORBA), GUI and structured graphics library called Fresco.  Fresco
supports multi-threading on Win NT and MT Unix's.  Check it out in
X11R6.

Since Fresco's interface (API) is defined in OMG IDL, Fresco can
be used from several languages.  The `servers' in the X11R6 sample
implementation are written in C++.  We are working on an Ada95
implementation.  Even C++ and Smalltalk programmers will be able
to use our `nice language' version.  ;-)

Fujitsu maintains a nice web page on Fresco:

    http://edinburgh.fujitsu.com:8000/Fresco.html

>Scott Turner
>Liant Software Corp., Framingham, MA 01701 USA
>pkturner@ultranet.com     http://www.ultranet.com/~pkturner/

... Bill

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