RE: Jeremy Self

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Well, would it be difficult to leave the paridigms and interface in place, and
write a giant 'wrapper' for xwindows or some similar thing?

>>
>> On Thursday 30 January 2003 08:54 pm, you wrote:
>>>
>>> > Why isn't Win32Lib x-plat?!
>>>
>>> What is "x-plat"?
>>
>> cross-platform
>>
>Ha ha ha.
>
>My guess is that the name "win32" has something to do with that. It seems 
>to imply "MS-Windows 32-bit" in my mind. Also, right from the outset, David 
>Cuny and others, seemed to hard code Windows specific paradigms and 
>literals into the library. It never seems to have been designed to be 
>cross-platform and would now require a complete, ground-up, rewrite to get 
>there - breaking just about all the code using it.
>
>The 'llama' product is one attempt at producing a cross-platform GUI for 
>Euphoria.


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