- From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:27:50 +0100 (BST)
- To: john.h.nixon@talk21.com
- cc: Amaya Mailing List <www-amaya@w3.org>
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 john.h.nixon@talk21.com wrote:
>
> I know that a similar issue has been raised before, but I would be interested to know
> what the Amaya developers and other W3C folks think about migrating the development
I'm in neither category, but...
> of W3C's showcase of Web technologies (Amaya) to C++ (probably reusing a
> lot of the existing C code at first) versus the status quo. Doing this would allow the possibility
> of using object-oriented design principles usually recommended in the design of
OO design is possible in C of course. C++ facilitates this to some
extent, but is not without its own problems. An example: It is not
as dynamic as other languages, and if one is moving away from C then
the case for avoiding other OO languages must be made.
fopen("/dev/can/worms", "w+")
[...]
>
> Do you think that this would speed up the development of Amaya in the long run and reduce
My opinion: definately not in the short/medium term -- you'd have to
be sure that porting to C++ didn't break anything, for a start.
> the number of bugs in the released versions?
The problem is basically too few developers. I don't see how moving
to C++ would help there.
>
> John Nixon
>
Hugh
Received on Tuesday, 17 June 2003 05:39:01 UTC