[GUI] Re: Gtk and Object I/O

[seth@cql.com]

Adrian,

The point is not to discourage you from trying, certainly.  No doubt much would
be learned from such an effort.

On 24-Jan-2003 Adrian Hey wrote:
> On Friday 24 January 2003 10:06, Axel Simon wrote:
>> This "let's do it all ourself" sounds very much like the
>> "not-invented-here" syndrome. Please realize that there are libraries out
>> there which are free, portable, well maintained and accomplish all that
>> what you would like to do from scratch. Gtk is one such example.
> 
> Sorry Axel, I didn't mean to deprecate your efforts regarding binding
> to Gtk (or Manuels or Krasimir's ObjectIO binding). I recognise that
> from a pragmatic viewpoint these are fine libraries which meet the
> immediate needs of most programmers.
> 
> But I don't think it's true that they accomplish all that what *I* would
> like to do, in an ideal world. I'm still of the opinion that whilst
> expedient, writing a Haskell binding to any complex C (or C++ or Java..)
> library will prove inconvenient for FP'ers in the end. Of course there's
> no avoiding this problem entirely, the library has to bind to something
> at the end of the day unless it's going to talk directly to hardware.
> 
> I think the more primitive and fewer our primitives are the better,
> because doing this invloves fewer implicit assumptions about how gui's
> should work, and IMHO makes porting simpler too. Of course this
> flexibility comes at the price having to write a useable library on
> top of these primitives ourselves in Haskell. Something I'm happy
> to try. But I'm the only one it seems :-)
> 
> Regards
> --
> Adrian Hey 
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Date: 24-Jan-2003
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