[maemo-developers] What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 21:26 +0100, Klaus Rotter wrote:
> Klaus Rotter schrieb:
> > Well, it is (to me) more a question of C vs C++. I started with C about 
> > twenty years ago and liked it a lot. But some of the features of C++ in 
> > addition with Qt are IMHO more "elegant", if you use a OO toolkit with 
> > an OO language like C++. E.g. methods overloading (which is really nice).
> 
> Some addition to this: I started programming Qt about 10 years ago with 
> Qt 1.x. Don't remember exactly. Qt was more or less the reason I started 
> learning C++. I got used to use some of the features C++ offered, but I 
> have some problems to read a program which uses a lot of the advanced 
> C++ features. Meanwhile, I wrote some Java code (starting which Java 
> 1.0) and found it somewhat easier (at least to understand) compared to 
> C++. But sometimes I miss pointers.
> After this period I started to work with gtk and C (I tried a lot of 
> other toolkits, eg. FLTK, wxWidgets (version 1), Fox and also Tcl/Tk 
> with ET). So, when I came back to gtk and C and found some "missing" 
> features in the object oriented design.

gtkmm

>  So, Vala may be one way to go... 
> it really looks interesting.

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