Re: [gtk-list] Why is gtk+ written in C?

[Havoc Pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Eric Harlow wrote:
> 
> One of the questions I got asked is "Why is gtk+ written in C?"  This
> was asked because widgets in gtk "inherit" the capability of other
> widgets and it seems natural to think of it in terms of C++.  Not
> having been through the original thinking and design, I was wondering
> if someone could give me a brief (or not so brief) reason why it's
> written in C instead of C++.
> 

 - portability
 - author preference  
 - customizable object system which allows bindings to other languages,
   including C++ (Gtk--)
 - Unix default language

Havoc