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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Tim,

Letting folks build and see your work will result in fairly broad 
feedback I would think. The feedback can be used to improve it. We'll 
just have to point folks to it once it's in the repository.

> As for C/C++, this has left me yearning for a better level.. I have no
> problem with C++ used properly, but there /has/ to be a better way to
> do this lisp? Ocaml? haskell?
>
> Tim

For user applications applications, I prefer Java over C++, and C++ over C.

For system level things, I/O drivers and what not, we use C++ to compile 
code that is a blend of C++ and C. Even if you were using C code, the 
type safe linkage that C++ brings is valuable. We would basically not 
prefer to use a C compiler, except to compile a linux kernel or someone 
else's C code that would not compile with a C++ compiler.


So, yes, Java is a better way, and there may be others I am not familiar 
with. One I would look forward to working with is "python with 
wxWidgets", but I have yet to do so.


These are matters of opinion, so there are likely to many differing views.


Dick