From koffice-devel  Fri Apr 15 10:47:27 2005
From: Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:47:27 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: koffice in non-cpp
Message-Id: <200504151247.34055.zander () kde ! org>
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After reading this:
http://lwn.net/Articles/130796/

I notice that my favourite language is going to be mature and part of gcc4=
=20
(which was scheduled for release today).
I want to put up the thought for consideration to have faster development b=
y=20
using a higher-level language in the KOffice project.  Like Java. The=20
resulting binaries will still be loadable libraries, you just need a newer=
=20
version of your compiler suite :)

In effect this seems quite nice for me:
> CNI makes it easy to mix and match code and classes written in C, C++ and
> Java by allowing you to write some methods of a class in C++ and to catch
> and throw exceptions directly to and from parts of the program written in
> different languages.  =20
Neat; eh?

I have stopped programming on KOffice for more then one reason; but=20
slow-compiles and a non-garbage-collecting language are both very high on=20
my list.  I have been programming Java for 6 years now, and I enjoy=20
creating things like this: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/972, but=
=20
I would never be able to create something like that in C++.

The gcj part of gcc4 is not out or perfect yet;  but neither is koffice 1.5=
=2E =20
So; I'm probably going to spend some energy on this, I'll let you know how=
=20
things fare from time to time :)

=2D-=20
Thomas Zander

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