From 4410300278311159017 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,f292bdd67daeb7bb X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: rdnewsNOSPAM2006@sbcglobal.net ("Tony") Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: C++ Embraces Procedural Programming Over OO Programming [OT] Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:05:54 GMT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com Lines: 37 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: References: <1164724788.102215.311700@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1164758773 11390 158.152.254.254 (29 Nov 2006 00:06:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:06:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 X-Priority: 3 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-UserInfo1: [[OWC\_DPZSUC_IS^P^D]_\@VR]^@B@MCPWZKB]MPXH@ETUCCNSKQFCY@TXDX_WHSVB]ZEJLSNY\^J[CUVSA_QLFC^RQHUPH[P[NRWCCMLSNPOD_ESALHUK@TDFUZHBLJ\XGKL^NXA\EVHSP[D_C^B_^JCX^W]CHBAX]POG@SSAZQ\LE[DCNMUPG_VSC@VJM X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id kAT05sET009731; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:05:54 +1100 (EST) X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:45:40 EST X-Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:4820 "kwikius" wrote in message news:1164724788.102215.311700@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > > Francis Glassborow wrote: >> In article , Sektor van Skijlen >> writes >> >Stating GUI, as an example, with current approach to the standard, >> >either the >> >standard has GUI thus making compilers for embedded platforms >> >nonstandard, or >> >it doesn't have, which means that there is no "standard GUI" thus making >> >a >> >user learned in "Standard C++" useless for making GUI in favor of guys >> >learned >> >in C# or Java. >> >> >> There is a far more fundamental problem. Try defining a portable GUI >> that is efficient on all platforms that support a GUI concept. > > Provide a virtual platform and you remove the problem. > hmm.... I wonder why no one has thought of that.... ;-) In your view, how is a cross-platform GUI API different from a "virtual platform"? That it implies that other cross-platform APIs (such as threads, networking, files etc) aren't included? Tony --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]