Re: Which environment should I choose?

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Huw Davies wrote:
> Now that I have my iPAQ up and running Linux I'm starting to wonder
> which software environment I should install. Without starting a flame
> war these are my current thoughts about the available environments -
> note that I have only installed the familiar set up, all the rest I've
> just researched.

[...]

> 2) Qt
>
> Advantages:
> Seems to have the best PDA interface
> Large list of PDA style applications
> No X11

No X11 as both an advantage and a drawback? :)

> Drawbacks:
> No X11
> c++

Are you looking at this from the point of view of the developer or the
user? From a user point of view, it's not really a disadvantage; g++
generates code of comparable efficiency to raw C, these days, and the Qt
toolkit is not that different in size from the X11 ones.[1]

For the developer, of course, C++ may be a drawback or it may not. I am
happy using C++ with Qt, because while I would rather use Common Lisp,
it isn't really available...

...but then, I never really saw the point of the C vs C++ fights that go
on so often. :)

        Daniel

Footnotes:
[1] From my knowledge which is, admittedly, relatively patchy in places
     like this still.

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