Re: C vs. C++ for libraries (was Re: SFL and Balsa)

[wil <wil dready org>]

Can we not get into the language thing, it's counter-productive. (After 
me, that is :)
Whether or not a C++ library can easily be used by a C client depends on 
the datatype that the library exports. It should be fine if it doesn't 
have fancy stuff like classes. In which case, you'd have to wrap the C++ 
data structures in C, which is simply a duplicate of effort.

| wil
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On 16 Oct 02:19 Raven wrote:
>   On 2001.10.15 02:34 Brian Stafford wrote:
>  > I am of the opinion that libraries should be written in C and not C++.
>  C++
>  > is a pain to integrate in non C++ programs.  OTOH, it is trivial to
>  wrap
>  a
>  > well designed C API for more languages than you could shake a stick 
>at.
>   Hmmm... Okay, this may be naive of me, but if a library in question
>  exposes
>  only an API (in other words, only the function calls it wants exposed to
>  the outside world) and the rest left as as an airtight black box, does 
>it
>  really matter what the contents of the black box were written in? I'll
>  admit that most of my background is in higher level languages (Visual
>  FoxPro, and lately Python), but I do have some C behind me, and find 
>that
>  the object-oriented model is usually the better model for design, which
>  in
>  the case of libraries would be C++ (gawds, please - not C#!!!). The
>  Gtk+/Gnome implementation in C strikes me as a poor imitation of true
>  object-oriented design, for example (yes, I know that one would usually
>  not
>  use those calls in a library).
>   But that's just me...
>   David M. Stowell
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