The ati petition

[Alan Cox]

On Sad, 2004-09-04 at 21:39, Lee Revell wrote:
> You are correct.  The X code base has the cruft of the ages.  Take a
> look at ./lib/Xt/Composite.c.  It looks like they wrote it in C++ and
> ported it to C, hacking in class inheritance and what not manually. 
> Possibly related to C++ being less than two years old when this code was
> written.

And as usual you'd be wrong. Read the Xt documentation and you'll
understand the design behind it.