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[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

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Subject: Re: [gtk-list] Re: Why is gtk+ written in C?
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From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>
Date: 29 Oct 1998 19:27:06 -0600
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Another problem with C++-based code is that the language is very big.
This is not inherently a problem, the problem is that different people
choose to use different subsets of the language (the ones they are
confortable with).

In large projects this poses a problem: in the long run you have
code that uses different subsets of the language used randomly in the
project: improving, fixing and redesigning the code tends to require a
person knowledgable in all of the different subsets of the language
used. 

This soon becomes a maitainer nightmare.

Miguel.
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miguel@gnu.org