Re: Merits
  By: Pascal Schmidt to John H. Guillory on Wed May 12 2004 05:38 pm

 > Hi John! :-)
 > 
 >  JHG> Which do you want?
 > There are cross-platform GUI (gtk+, Qt, wxWindows) and graphics (SDL, which 
 > sort of a portable DirectX) libraries for C. You can write stuff that runs o
 > Windows, Linux, and Macs without source code changes.
Yes, and when you use them, your code is not 100% ANSI STD C LIBRARY Only.
As such, you can not claim your code is portable to the point that it will
compile on any AMIGA, C64, C128, CP/M, Embedded System, etc. Which is the
same arguement as to why most C Programmers that choose STD C when learning C
use.... They claim they want to write ANSI C to be cross-platform compatible.
 If that's the case, then stick to ANSI-C and do without graphics, because
your not going to find a ANSI-C Graphics library for an embedded system!
Granted, restricting code to being that portable is often pointless, unless
your writing a utility for multiple operating systems, however, it none the
less is the supposedly goal of newbie programmers who start off in C because
of its compatibility without fully understanding what that means to their
program.....
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