>>The button example requires about 25 lines of code in three procedures
>>when implemented in C++ with Microsoft Foundation Classes. Just
>>setting the font requires 7 lines of code: ...
>
>>Come on! All this shows is the inconveniece of using the MFC
>>classes. An interface exactly the same as the Tcl one could easily be
>>written in C++.
>
>I invite anyone who believes this to try to do it, and post the results.
>I've had this argument before, and when people do this, one of two things
>happens: either they eventually concede that this is hard to do in C++, or
>they define new C++ APIs that are essentially untyped (e.g. they use
>strings for everything).
I think this is a silly debate. You could write it in C++Builder, and
select the button in the integrated development environment, and click on
the 'font' button, and select a font for it graphically, without any lines
of code. So what?
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Lucian Wischik, Queens' College, Cambridge CB3 9ET. ljw1004@cam.ac.uk
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