On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Moshe Zadka wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Michael Lauer wrote:
> 
> > Hmm - I thought that especially the hand crafted stuff
> > do the most work in hiding the naturally not object oriented
> > nature of the native GTK language - C.

One wonders what you think that the first C++ compiler was built in. If
only OO languages can interpret OO, that would be a chicken/egg problem,
no?

After all,  how can Python, which is written in C, be OO? (by your logic)

> Gtk+ is perfectly object oriented. Hence, PyGTK only exposes that OO in
> Python's way, rather then Gtk+'s (admittedly idisyncristic) OO
> methodology.

They made a good choice in terms of allowing alternate language bindings.
The Python bindings are great.

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