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Gnome, Mozilla and the Challenge of Longhorn

Submitted by mccaffer on Wed, 2004-04-07 05:36. Gnome 2.x

With lots of talk recently about mono/java/python, it seems like a response to Longhorn and XAML is brewing. People at mozilla are talking about how to create an alliance against the hegemon. Co-operation with gnome is discussed on mozillazine. I do hope that gnome can use the XUL language or something like it so that gui programming is easy for us mere mortals. Lets not re-invent the wheel reproducing XAML when we've already got XUL!

Re: Gnome, Mozilla and... What about C++?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2004-04-07 16:11.

Actually in more ways than one, C++ is much more of an object oriented language than Java or .NET will ever be.

Would you mind explaining how you arrived at this conclusion? From what I've been taught, C++ isn't really object oriented at all. It just uses a bunch of mechanisms to fake objects. Because of this, the way C++ does things is generally considered a hack to get in some functionality that shouldn't really be there in the first place. Sorry I don't know more about it...I'm planning on doing some projects this summer that will teach me.

Java, on the other hand, does support pure objects and contains them within a managed environment. C# is even more object-oriented, with primitives being object instantiations (IIRC).

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