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[Gnu-arch-users] Nit
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Mark A. Flacy |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Nit |
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Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:22:37 -0500 |
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Walters <address@hidden> writes:
Colin>
Colin> Different languages are good at different things. For example, if
Colin> you wanted to implement the above using GTK+, you really want to use
Colin> an object-oriented programming style. Doing anything nontrivial
Colin> with a GUI in a procedural manner is just painful. If we
Colin> artificially restrict the tla extension libraries to say Scheme
Colin> (which lacks OO features), then we've also restricted the classes of
Misinformation alert: Scheme certainly can have OO features; Guile does.
http://www.gnu.org/software/goops/goops.html
If you're from a C++/Java/Python world, it's certainly different from what
you would be used to.
Colin> applications that people can easily build.
Which doesn't take much from the main point of "Different languages are
good at different things."
--
Mark A. Flacy
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are, ummm, facts.
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- Re: Native windows support (was Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language), (continued)
- Re: Native windows support (was Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language), Karel Gardas, 2003/10/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Tom Lord, 2003/10/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Colin Walters, 2003/10/17
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Extension language, Miles Bader, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Extension language, Colin Walters, 2003/10/17
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Extension language, Miles Bader, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Extension language, Colin Walters, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Extension language, Tom Lord, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Extension language, Colin Walters, 2003/10/17
- [Gnu-arch-users] Nit,
Mark A. Flacy <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Nit, Miles Bader, 2003/10/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Nit, Colin Walters, 2003/10/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Nit, Miles Bader, 2003/10/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Nit, Colin Walters, 2003/10/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Nit, Joshua Haberman, 2003/10/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Nit, Tom Lord, 2003/10/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Nit, Colin Walters, 2003/10/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Nit, Tom Lord, 2003/10/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Nit, Colin Walters, 2003/10/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Nit, Tom Lord, 2003/10/19