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“We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.” quote by Miguel de Icaza — Download Open image

“We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.”

Miguel de Icaza

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There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

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In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.

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I believe in true love. But I am easily satisfied.

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We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

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Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.

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