From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>
Cc: Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A labltk book?
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:30:03 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1192228203.6735.6.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <470FD7B0.1090601@janestcapital.com>
On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 16:23 -0400, Brian Hurt wrote:
> The problem as I understand things is that C++ doesn't play nice with
> any language that is not C++ or explicitly designed to work with C++
> (cue Skaller). This is especially true if you use the fancy features
> of C++ like templates and operator overloading, which Qt does. Which
> makes it much easier to use in C++, but much harder to bind to any
> other language.
Can't speak for Qt, but otherwise Brian is quite correct.
Even dumbed down C++ doesn't work well as a target language
due to a large number of 'non-orthogonalities' where some
of the few good invariants C provides are lost. Unfortunately
ISO C99 also trends that way for C as well.
--
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-12 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-12 4:50 Jeff Shaw
2007-10-12 6:43 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
[not found] ` <aee06c9e0710121142p50cb3e17x369afc7f9661f3c6@mail.gmail.com>
2007-10-12 18:43 ` Nathaniel Gray
2007-10-12 18:47 ` Eric Cooper
2007-10-12 20:03 ` Dario Teixeira
2007-10-12 20:13 ` Michael Wohlwend
2007-10-12 21:58 ` Dario Teixeira
2007-10-13 9:42 ` forum
2007-10-13 10:15 ` forum
2007-10-13 14:43 ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-13 20:29 ` Nathaniel Gray
2007-10-12 20:23 ` Brian Hurt
2007-10-12 22:30 ` skaller [this message]
2007-10-13 10:11 ` Mattias Engdegård
[not found] <20071014100005.94A63BC6C@yquem.inria.fr>
2007-10-14 12:21 ` Pascal Cuoq
2007-10-15 20:54 ` Nathaniel Gray
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