- From: Markku Savela <msa@msa.tte.vtt.fi>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 17:14:20 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: www-lib@w3.org
>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/
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