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Perl: the Markov chain saw  Re^3: Perl and open source  by
exussum0 (Vicar) on Nov 14, 2004 at 02:36 UTC
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Tradition. Since a lot of OSs and user environments are written
in C, a widget set in C would make sense. I.e. XWindows and what
not. For java, that was backed by Sun from the get-go. Have
strong OOP, graphical stuff, networking and so on. C++, I can
only think of the MFC and qt off of the top of my head. The only
toolkits for C++ i can think of are people who wish to make a
profit on peple who want a graphical interface written in C++
instead of just wrapped. C++, I *think* has more biz people
interested, as OOP is usually good for representing biz like
ideas in an organized way. Companies like "organization". Perl
had it tacked on later, no?  So java is company backed. C++ is
profit backed. C is done sort of as a default