Re: newbie rant

To: www-lib@w3.org
Subject: Re: newbie rant
From: Markku Savela <msa@msa.tte.vtt.fi>
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 17:14:20 +0300 (EET DST)
From msa@msa.tte.vtt.fi Thu May 23 10: 18:00 1996
In-Reply-To: "LSH"'s message of 23 May 1996 08:33:20 U <199605231322.AA09076@interlock.lubrizol.com>
Message-Id: <199605231414.RAA27630@msa.tte.vtt.fi>
Reply-To: msa@hemuli.tte.vtt.fi (Markku Savela)
X-List-URL: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Archives/Public/www-lib/


>I understand that some people on the list do not share my views and
>that my opinions may be a little biased, but I am an ardent C++ fan
>and I believe that a good OO design can solve most of the problems.

I am one of the persons who think the C++ is hype.. and you can write
good object oriented code in plain C. I like the fact that wwwlib is
written in C.

I have been looking and using the wwwlib since beginning this year,
and I do have to agree on the general sentiments here: the
documentation is good only for getting the general overview.

When you want actually to use the library in your application,
documentation fails. A reference manual type thing seems to be missing
(an example of such could be O'reilly & Associates "X Toolkit
Intrinsics Reference Manual"):

	- list all functions in the library in alphabetical order,

	- for each function, explain what parameters it takes and what
	  they do,

	- list related functions

With wwwlib, you have to look at the example applications and library
source, and make guesses.

--
Markku Savela (msa@hemuli.tte.vtt.fi),     Technical Research Centre of Finland
Multimedia Systems, P.O.Box 1203,FIN-02044 VTT,http://www.vtt.fi/tte/staff/msa/

Follow-Ups:

Re: saving a URL/newbie rant

From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>

References:

Re(2): saving a URL/newbie rant

From: "LSH" <lsh@lubrizol.com>

Prev: <embed> tag
Next: Re(2): saving a URL/newbie rant
Index: Message index of www-lib@w3.org mailing list
Thread: Thread index of www-lib@w3.org mailing list