From: bma3@dana.ucc.nau.edu (Ben Atkin)
Subject: Re: Xlib Binding or Re-implementation?
Date: 20 Mar 2004 14:48:15 -0800
Date: 2004-03-20T14:48:15-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <985cbdf6.0403201448.500761f5@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vfl3nh08.fsf@insalien.org
Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> wrote in message
> The designers of GTK+ never intended for GTK+ applications to be
> written in C. I personally attended a presentation by Owen Taylor, a
> member of the core GTK+ team, at FOSDEM 2003. He specifically said
> "Do Not Program In C", and he explained that his employer Red Hat uses
> Python for all their GUIs.
I had no idea that Owen Taylor said that. I knew that Owen Taylor
works for Redhat and that Redhat uses Python for their admin tool
GUI's. That is good to know.
It would be nice if he was a little more vocal about it, though. Most
Gtk+ programs I've run across are coded in C, including the one I'm
using right now, Galeon. If they were written in something else, maybe
bugs and design issues would be fewer, and more easily fixed.
But I still think that there are a lot of fundamental problems with
the API, and there are a lot of glitches that annoy me to no end.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-20 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-16 21:20 Xlib Binding or Re-implementation? Ben Atkin
2004-03-17 9:46 ` Preben Randhol
2004-03-17 23:11 ` Ben Atkin
2004-03-18 0:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-03-20 22:48 ` Ben Atkin [this message]
2004-03-21 8:34 ` Preben Randhol
2004-03-18 10:00 ` Preben Randhol
2004-03-18 10:09 ` Peter Hermann
2004-03-18 20:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-03-31 7:36 ` David Starner
2004-03-17 10:34 ` Ludovic Brenta
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