Re: C or C++ for FOSS/linux?

On 2006-12-29, Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner <basti.wiesner@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Of course MS uses it, that is why MS is so bloated.

The reason, why MS C++ applications are bloated, is not C++
itself. MS simply never understood, how to design libraries.
Therefore the MFC library is nearly unusable. However, C++ in
combination with the VCL library from Borland or the QT
Toolkit is a very elegant and fast language, even on the
"bloated" windows system. The Windows API is even worse than
MFC, although it has been written in your favourite language
C.

Wasn't the Windows API written in/for Pascal? Only later were
"C" versions of the API pasted on.

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