Subject: Re: AbiSource, Ispell, Aspell and beyond...
From: Kevin Atkinson (kevinatk@home.com)
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 21:52:17 CST
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Paul Rohr wrote:
> At 10:09 PM 2/25/00 -0500, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>
> Mmmmm. Tasty. That's the meaty stuff that's been having us drooling over
> your algorithms for so long now. Thanks for the explanation.
>
> :-)
Your welcome.
>
> >No, I just don't like the portability standards. It has NOTHING to do with
> >you but AbiSource, Mozilla, etc. viewpoint on how using such a low level
> >of C++. I understand your reasons however I gcc has come along quite a
> >bit sense the standards were originally advised and gcc will compile on
> >almost all platforms except the mac.....
>
> OK. Thanks for clarifying.
>
> I'm sorry that our viewpoint is so frustrating to you, but believe me -- we
> had to work *very* hard to convince ourselves not to just stay pure ANSI C.
> If we had, we'd be a *lot* more popular with kernel hackers and GNOME
> hackers. The number of developers we'd gain by allowing the full gamut of
> modern C++ techniques pales in comparison to the number of C-only developers
> that we're trying to lure over the :: fence.
I think the slashdot interview with Bjarne Stroustrup addresses a lot of
these issues.
--- Kevin Atkinson kevinatk@home.com http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/
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