- From: Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:54:31 -0400
- To: Libwww-List <www-lib@w3.org>
Fox One wrote: > I hope that this never happens. C++ has many serious > problems, That is certainly the case, particularly in navigating the difference between various vendor's version of the Standard Template Library (STL). However there is some merit to exposing the libwww functionality in a c++ friendly manner. > A move of libwww to C++ would mean that a much smaller > number of people would be able to follow the Library's > development; Now if the question had been about moving the codebase to something like scheme, forth, or ada even, perhaps this would be justified. However, there is a fairly large population of c++ programmers and the GNU support for c++ is strong. In fact some recent work done by Laurent Oget using iostream and maps would indicate that the GNU 32 bit executables are 4 to 5 times faster than 64 bit executables produced using SUN's workshop compiler !!! > --- Asif Momin <asif@teknema.com> wrote: > > > There was an effort in Mar 1999 to move libwww to c++, > > but there have been no updates regarding this issue. There are many places in the header files that could use a bit of the 'extern c' decorations . . . > > I am curious to know the status of the work going on in this > > direction. Please update me about this. The current code base is quite object oriented without taking the hit of a c++ compile environment. If someone were to take the time, it would be fairly straightforward to create c++ wrappers to provide a more natural way to use this function from that world. more, l8r, v
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