Introducing Vala Programming: A Language and Techniques to Boost Productivity

© Michael Lauer 2019

M. LauerIntroducing Vala Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5380-9_9

9. External Libraries

Michael Lauer¹ 

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Neu-Isenburg, Hessen, Germany

 

A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of ...