Why GNOME uses C?

[Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes <cerdiogenes yahoo com br>]

The GNOME Desktop is object oriented? Why it don't use a programming 
language that support this paradigm???

I talked with a GNOME programmer and one of the reasons that he gives 
for me is that the objects don't have and specification yet and 
different compilers generate the code in differentes, but this is not a 
problem if we use only gcc... there is a major problem in using only gcc...

There is a place where I can find more information about this 
question... I look in the discussion list, google, gnome site, but don't 
find anything to answer this question... and if anyone knows other 
reasons why C is used, tell me please...

Thanks,
Carlos.