widi@wohnheim.uni-ulm.de (Rainer Bawidamann)
> Most of the non-GUI classes in Qt can be replaced from other libraries:
> QString by the standard String class, the lists etc. by STL. I wonder
> why Qt uses its own, maybe because they cannot use the free libg++ on
> Unix ...

Because Qt was written at a time when there was nothing to use.  The
code that existed was

 - badly implemented
 - not portable
 - undocumented

or even

 - all of the above

--Arnt