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From: Oleg Zabluda <zabluda@math.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: maturity of the STL as a standard in the C++ standard library
Date: 1998/06/24
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	[Moderator's note: this subthread seems to be drifting off-topic.
	Please keep followups relevant to C++ standardization. -fjh.]

Daniel Parker <danielp@nospam.com> wrote:
: jkanze@otelo.ibmmail.com wrote in message

: >With regards to the problem of using the lowest common denominator, at
: >least between the windowing systems I used, Windows NT is the lowest common
: >denominator -- any X-Window system offers all of the functionality of
: >Windows, plus some.

: But X is slow compared to Windows, for obvious reasons.  

Theoretically yes, because it does more. In practice, however,
Unix+X definitely have far superior performance on the same hardware
then Windows. 

: Sun and HP
: workstation applications feel sluggish compared to Windows applications.

My experience was directly opposite. I also have the benefit
of comparing the two on the same hardware dozens of times.

: And the X API is not, how should I put it, one of the great API's.

X is not an API. X is a protocol. Xlib is a library dealing with
the protocol. API is called Xaw, Xt, Intrinsics, Motif, wxWindows,
Ilog Windows, Qt, GTK, Tk, Xforms, ... (add 30 more here).
Not all of them are great API's, but many is far superior to
MS windows.

Oleg.
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