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Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

Posted Jan 13, 2011 20:09 UTC (Thu) by daniel (subscriber, #3181)
In reply to: Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate by romanfi
Parent article: Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

You omitted the biggest issue: casts. C makes you do this, the result is a nasty abomination. Been there.


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Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

Posted Jan 13, 2011 20:55 UTC (Thu) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

Perhaps you mean C-style casts? You still have to cast in C++, but it looks different and often does it implicitly (which can be a bad thing, see also passing a Manager to a function accepting an Employee instead of reference to Employee, as discussed in Stroustrup).

Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

Posted Jan 18, 2011 17:56 UTC (Tue) by daniel (subscriber, #3181) [Link]

"Perhaps you mean C-style casts?"

I meant pointer casts that attempt to simulate a C++ class hierarchy using C structs with casts.

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