From: brennan AT mack DOT rt66 DOT com (Brennan "The Rev. Bas" Underwood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro future
Date: 14 Dec 1996 17:42:39 -0700
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In article <m0vXru4-000S1dC AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar>,
Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) <salvador AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar> wrote:
>> GEORGE ARUGAY MONTEMAYOR wrote:
>> > 
>> > 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

Why leave out C programmers? Just create C++ wrappers for what you want to be
OO. Trivial really. And fast with inline methods.


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