Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!linus!linus!mir!dsr From: dsr@mir.mitre.org (Douglas S. Rand) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Why wasn't X implemented using C++? Message-ID: <1991Mar13.150910.20228@linus.mitre.org> Date: 13 Mar 91 15:09:10 GMT References: <1991Feb28.010503.774@lta.com> <22626@oolong.la.locus.com> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Reply-To: dsr@mir.mitre.org (Douglas S. Rand) Organization: The MITRE Corporation Lines: 11 Nntp-Posting-Host: mir.mitre.org How about C++ was hardly even thought of back when W was done and then X. Support for C++ (like source level debuggers) have only been around for two years or so. And C++ has no standard, so how would they port X around to different machines? C is bad enough. -- Douglas S. Rand Internet: Snail: MITRE, Burlington Road, Bedford, MA Disclaimer: MITRE might agree with me - then again... Amateur Radio: KC1KJ