Re: Efforts to attract more users?

[John Yates]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
>>
>> In that case, couldn't we just convert our base code to C++, then we
>> could use wxWidgets.
>
> Maybe Lennart will volunteer for that job.

Bjarne Stroustrup pretty much beat Lennart to it.  It is mostly a
project decision to invoke the C++ rather than the C compiler.  The
gcc project recently took the plunge:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-05/msg00705.html

/john