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Re: Threads, reentrancy, and suchlike things (was: Re: Working Group Proposal)

From:
Simon Cozens
Date:
July 24, 2000 18:03
Subject:
Re: Threads, reentrancy, and suchlike things (was: Re: Working Group Proposal)
Message ID:
20000725092407.A17396@justanother.perlhacker.org
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 12:08:19AM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk> writes:
> >
> >I encourage you - nay, I encourage *EVERYONE* - to look at glib.
> 
> Where is it (docs will do for now)?

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/glib/index.html

> (what is it?)

It's a utility library.

> What ain't it got ? 

Perl. Portability may be a concern, but given that it has been ported to
the Palm Pilot, I think this shouldn't be too much of a problem...

> >How many of these wheels are we prepared to reinvent?
> None - if the wheels fit on the vehicle we end up building.

And if they don't, maybe we can spin-off some wheels of our own.

Simon
-- 
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland";
but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.



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