Re: class writer

[vishnu pobox com]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:26:26AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote:
> > The attached perl script generates the standard boiler-plate C
> > code for registering a GObject subclass.  Maybe i'm not the only
> > one who is sick of doing this by hand.  Comments welcome.
>
> I think we should encourage the use or adaptation of Objective-C for
> people trying to do the kind of dynamic object-oriented programming that
> GObject (painfully) allows. The fact that preprocessor-type programs
> are popping up is enough evidence for me: we should be looking to standardize
> on an extension to C for Gtk+ applications development instead of making
> lots of different preprocessors for different dialects. The need for
> preprocessing is obviously there (we knew that in 1980 actually :-)
> ...why not take an additional step with this great compiled language
> we're already (almost) using?

Yah, but all the other languages takes things too far.  For example,
there are well known problems hidden inside the implementation of C++
due to the slightly sub-optimal design of the language.  i don't know
as much about Objective-C, but i'm suspicious.  At this point, i am
interesting in seeing slow, sure-footed evolution of C, like C99.
i also support extremely conservative extensions such as:

  http://guidod.4t.com/substruct-c

$0.02

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