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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OPEN LOOK announced first (was: Re: Motif/Openlook, is there a trend?
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.004132.6849@alphalpha.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 00:41:32 GMT
References: <1991Feb6.175037.5331@Solbourne.COM>
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In article <1991Feb6.175037.5331@Solbourne.COM> garya@Solbourne.COM (Gary Aitken) writes:
>> I agree with the former person's comment.  The fact that there are so
>> few producers of Motif toolkits...
>
>I love this one.  Clearly, your are from the "C is the only language worth
>programming in" camp.
>
>Let's take a hypothetical case.  OSF releases Motif, and the 
>toolkit is written in FORTRAN.  So now the one and only toolkit which you
>don't have any problems with only comes with a FORTRAN API.  Or pick another
>one.  What if it derived from something written for a PC in BASIC?  
>
>> ... makes Motif much easier figure out
>
>Hmmm.  Guess it depends on what your frame of reference is. 

Wait.  I'm not saying I object to having multiple toolkits.  Only
that I prefer to have *1* industry standard toolkit (at least for
a given language).  The issue here is support.  OSF/Motif is a toolkit
which I expect vendors to support on their hardware, so I won't have
to worry about porting it whereever I go (we're talking theory here,
don't ask me about practice :-).  Having other toolkits with other APIs
is fine, and even having vendors support them is fine.  I just want to
know that I've always got one I can depend on to be there.  If I need
something that another toolkit provides, or I prefer it for some other
reason, then I can byte off the support problem myself.  My problem
with Open Look right now is that there is *no* standard toolkit which
I can rely upon finding standard on all platforms - not even platforms which
claim to be in the OL camp.

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