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

["Shawn T . Amundson" <amundson gimp org>]

On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:43:28AM -0700, 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++.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>  -Eric
> 

One could speculate that GTK+ is written in C because it was written
for GIMP, and GIMP is written in C.

I'm guessing any other points are probably not so fundemental to the
actual decision.

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