From: gmontem AT mercury DOT sfsu DOT edu (GEORGE ARUGAY MONTEMAYOR)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro future
Date: 10 Dec 1996 17:41:12 GMT
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shaman AT nlc DOT net DOT au wrote:
: 	Another question: Why is allegro pure C? Why not C++? Some of the
: things in allegro are just crying out for proper OO. Take the bitmaps
: for example. Now we have "create_bitmap" and "destroy_bitmap". Why not

One word: speed.  OO is slow.

-george