Re: [gtkmm] Probably a stupid Gtk+ question

[Nathan Hurst <njh hawthorn csse monash edu au>]

Paul Davis wrote:

> > If Gtk+ is built on an object model, why did those folks go to such
> > (rumored to be) herculean lengths to build one in C, instead of just
> > using C++?  I can think perhaps language bindings had something to do,
> >    
>
> a *lot* to do with it. binding scheme/perl/ruby/php/python to C++ is
> to all effects and purposes so hard as to be impractical. when you add
> in the instability of the C++ ABI, even if you loved C++, its a pretty
> clear choice.
This is not particularly true.  I've written python interfaces to pure 
C++ libraries without trauma.  I don't think even FuzzyBaseClass isn't 
the problem that people claim it is.

njh