Re: C vs C++ for GTK



On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:40:41 -0700
Michael L Torrie <torriem chem byu edu> wrote:

Dan H wrote:

Isn't "smart pointers" just a reference counting scheme?

Yup.  Poor-man's garbage collection.  Turns out to be just the
ticket, though, for GUI programming.  Because of that, I'd put
productivity with GTKmm to be right up there with PyGTK or GTK#.

Reference counting is already a feature of the underlying GTK+/C layer. As always somewhat more verbose than 
C++.

--D.





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