I haven't heard much about Objective C. I would guess that it is dying, but maybe I'm just not listening in the right groups.
What features are you looking for in the language besides portability? ANSI C is quite portable. C++ works if you don't use some of the really complex features. Java is also OO with a C++-like syntax. Java takes care of the memory management details for you. My personal favorite language is Python. Python is a very high level OO language that is quite portable as well. www.python.org Python is dynamically typed which makes it easier to use that C++/Java. It also supports a procedural style of programming. All of the languages I have listed have GTK bindings. If you plan on using GTK, check out Glade. (it is listed on the GTK web site) Glade allows you to put your gui together visually and generates the code for you. As an alternative to generating code that must then be compiled is the libglade library. libglade reads Glade's XML save format and creates the widgets at runtime. C, C++, and Python can use libglade. I believe Obj C can use plain C libraries, but haven't gone beyond a cursory glance at a tutorial. HTH, -D On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:56:17PM -0500, Francois Fayard wrote: | Hello, | | Sorry for this question that perhaps doesn't really suit to the | debian-mailing list. But If someone has some advice, I would be great. | | I want to write a mathematical program (so no plateform dependencies) | which used to be in Fortran 90. I want to switch to a real language. | One of my choice is Objective-C. I mainly developp under Linux and MacOsX, | and my program will finally run under a SGI Octane with IRIX 6.5. | | I have some basic questions : | -On Objective-C | 1) Is this language growing or dying ? | 2) Is it easy to write some code in Objective-C that talk to other | programs written in C and C++ ? | | -On the Free Objective-C compiler from Gcc. | 1) Will it be available on IRIX (Does gcc will compile easily) ? | 2) Is this compiler good ? | | -On Objective-C and GTK | 1) Is the GTK libraries for Objective-C good, and is the project still | alive ? | | Thank you for your help on any of these questions | Francois |
