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

[Eric Harlow <linuxgeek yahoo com>]

Isn't C++ portable? 
Couldn't GTK have been written C++ with bindings to other languages? 

---Havoc Pennington <rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
> > 
> > One of the questions I got asked is "Why is gtk+ written in C?"  
> 
>  - portability
>  - author preference  
>  - customizable object system which allows bindings to other
languages,
>    including C++ (Gtk--)
>  - Unix default language
> 
> Havoc
> 
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