- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 13:04:46 -0400
- To: "LSH" <lsh@lubrizol.com>
- Cc: "Eric Prud'hommeaux" <eric@w3.org>, "www-lib%w3.org@interlockp.lubrizol.com" <www-lib@w3.org>
"LSH" writes: > P.S. People, PLEASE, don't take my rant personally! > Why is that when the conversation is about C and C++ differences > many people consider it like a religious persecution?! > I am trying to offend every honest and hard working C programmer > just because s/he is not using the latest OO techniques. > I am simply attempting to suggest a better way (IMO -- I know that > many people don't share it!) to approach the problem at hand. I don't think that anybody are talking this personally - at least they shouldn't. My opinion is that we don't have the resources at W3C to rewrite libwww in C++ but I also don't think that this is necessary. What _is_ feasible, however, would be to build a C++ API on top of the libwww core. For example a new HTAccess module with a lot better interface for getting a URL in a simple way. This would be a good start! I just toook a quick count - there are almost 350 subscribers to this mailing list and I would be surprised if we should not be able to put together a small team that would have as task to write a client API in C++ on top of libwww. We would be happy to provide the disk space and maybe an additional mailing list for this. What do you say? Henrik
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