Daniel Pittman wrote (in part):
> No X11 as both an advantage and a drawback? :)
Indeed. Having X11 allows for "industry standard" compatibility. Not having
X11 frees up memory and "disk" space.
> 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...
This is from a personal perspective. I don't like c much and c++ even less.
Huw Davies
COMPAQ BUSINESS CRITICAL SERVICES
231 Normanby Road, South Melbourne, 3205
E-mail: Huw.Davies_at_compaq.com
* Personal opinion only *
Received on Fri Aug 24 2001 - 08:33:28 EDT
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