Re: C vs C++ for GTK

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 22:06 +0100, Dan H wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:40:41 -0700
> Michael L Torrie <torriem chem byu edu> wrote:
>
> > Dan H wrote:
>
> > > Isn't "smart pointers" just a reference counting scheme?
> >
> > Yup.  Poor-man's garbage collection.  Turns out to be just the
> > ticket, though, for GUI programming.  Because of that, I'd put
> > productivity with GTKmm to be right up there with PyGTK or GTK#.
>
> Reference counting is already a feature of the underlying GTK+/C layer. As always somewhat more verbose 
> than C++.

The difference is that GTK+ in C requires you to think about it. And you
will make a mistake that will be difficult to debug. But with gtkmm you
don't need to think about it and you can't get it wrong. (There are
plenty of other things you can get wrong instead, in any language.)

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