KDE = Joy [LWN.net]

KDE = Joy

Posted Dec 16, 2005 3:27 UTC (Fri) by thedevil (guest, #32913)
In reply to: KDE = Joy by njhurst
Parent article: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

njhurst wrote:
If you are a C++ programmer you should take a look at gtkmm. It is a lot more C++ than QT. Murray Cumming has done a much better job of understanding the C++ paradigm (ouch, did I just use that word..) than the Troll developers. And the people I'm talking about tend to program in more esoteric languages (they would say 'real languages') such as Haskell, ocaml and Mercury.

Your sense is not clear here. (Who are the "people I'm talking about", Qt people or Gtk?) Can you please explain?

From my post way above you'll see that I quite disagree with you, but
until you clarify I won't repeat that again :-)

(Log in to post comments)

KDE = Joy

Posted Dec 16, 2005 4:36 UTC (Fri) by njhurst (guest, #6022) [Link]

I said 'good programmer', cloose seemed to think I meant C++ instead of C or something, I said Haskell etc.

KDE = Joy

Posted Dec 17, 2005 4:18 UTC (Sat) by thedevil (guest, #32913) [Link]

Ok, now I see, you referred to a post up the thread. Here's where the
disadvantage of a web forum over a newsgroup or mailing list shows ...

I think the preference of Real Language people for gtk is very simple -
there are, by historical accident (or is there another tangible reason?)
bindings for Gtk in those languages, while there aren't any for Qt.

One aspect of Qt is annoying - its dependence on database libraries.
I don't know if that played any role in making Gtk bindings preferred.