On Friday 07 March 2003 18:45, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
> - extreme API/ABI stability
>     -> no virtual inheritance
>     -> no virtual functions
>  - portability
>     -> no exceptions
>     -> no global constructors
>         -> no excessive templates
>         -> no STL
>  - efficiency
>     -> no virtual functions
>         -> no inheritance
>         -> no standard new/delete operators
>  - extreme long-term API/ABI stability
>     -> no inheritance
>  - extreme portability
>     -> no C++

From my experience and those of my colleagues (working for a company which has 
been selling C++ libs for more than 10 years, said libs having an emphasis on 
portability, performance and most of all API stability), the only two ones 
which are correct are "no excessive templates/no STL" (and these are rapidly 
fading away as well). All the others are either unfounded or utterly wrong. 
And I don't think you should worry too much about arts being ported to 
platforms with a broken STL (would arts really need to use any of the really 
complex features of the STL anyay ?).

So again, if these are the reasons why you wrote arts in C (and not because 
you wanted Gnome to use it), sorry, you made a *huge* mistake.

-- 
				Guillaume
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