Why doesn't C++ have comprehensive API like Java?

[somebody]

Re: Why doesn't C++ have comprehensive API like Java?

On Mon, 02 May 2005 05:50:18 +0200, Val wrote:
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> | I don't understand at all how you can arrive at that conclusion.
> | Have you seen Java's API documentation?
> |
>
> You can count on it that Phlip and many other C++ coders have "seen"
>the Java API documentation :).
>
> But you missed the whole point.
> If you don't write system applications, or low level code in general
>like engines, you (or anyone) shouldn't be bothered by C++ to
> start with.
> - Val -[/color]


I disagree with this completely. There are numerous applications written
in C and C++. Most applications right here on my Linux box are mostly
written in C. I developed commercial software that I wrote in Visual
C++ many years ago, although VC++ is an application framework as opposed
to a language. It's just after years learning other languages, I thought
C++ would have evolved to include more standard functionality. I guess
what I really want is an API like Java, with the speed of C. Wishful
thinking I know.

[Phlip]

Re: Why doesn't C++ have comprehensive API like Java?

somebody wrote:
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> ... It's just after years learning other languages, I thought
> C++ would have evolved to include more standard functionality. I guess
> what I really want is an API like Java, with the speed of C. Wishful
> thinking I know.[/color]

Absolutely. Besides Qt/KDE, wxWidgets, Gtk+/Gnome, Win32, MacOSX, and Motif,
the C languages just don't seem to have any APIs like Java...

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Phlip

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