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Laurent Guerby <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 31 May 1999 23:48:34 +0200
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From Miguel de Icaza, the GNOME project leader,
<URL: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-May/1038.shtml>

> [...]
> Now, I personally have problems with C++. It is a language that
> has evolved over time: there was no clear goal at the beginning, nor a
> clear goal during its development. What we have now is a mix of
> language features, many of them good features. But sadly, the
> language lacks some sort of "internal" consistency. This is purely
> from a taste-point-of-view.
>
>    Contrary to what most people think, Ada95 is a much nicer, simpler
> and cleaner language than C++ is. And Ada95 has nice bindings for GTK
> (and I think GNOME as well).
> [...]

FYI, the Ada 95 binding for the GTK toolkit is available
from <URL: http://ada.eu.org/gtkada/>, the GNOME
project home page being <URL: http://www.gnome.org/>.

--LG

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