Re: OO approaches to GTK+

[John Jensen <jjens primenet com>]

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Dan Rosen wrote:

> Hi John -
> 
> Sounds like you're proposing to work on a new language specification... I
> don't know how much thinking you've done on the topic, but I'm sure you
> realize how complicated the issue is. Not that I even know a fraction of
> the issues involved, but I can only imagine... :)
> 
> It's fortunate for most OO language programmers that GTK+ was constructed
> with object-oriented principles in mind. You might be interested to see
> what the creators and core programmers have to say about the general topic
> of "playing well with C" (because, for one thing, it seems like some C
> code just wasn't meant to be touched by any living soul, never mind
> another language).
> 
> I personally can't offer you any direct insight. I just don't know enough.
> I might suggest looking at some of Bjarne Stroustrup's (the primary
> creator of C++) documentation regarding C and C++ playing nicely with each
> other.
> 
> Have fun,
> Dan

I can certainly see the OO principles in GTK+, and in various Gnome libs.

I was kind of hoping that some people would tell some success stories of
how their favorite OO language integrates with GTK+ and these other libs.

I've got to admit I'm intrigued by what kind of new language could be
contrived ... but I'm realistic enough to understand that by the time such
a thing was constructed, today's problems would be in the past.

John