From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,80e8e0df8032d89e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,fa07350fd81f7563 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,fa07350fd81f7563 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-31 03:31:00 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!darum.uni-mannheim.de!ipx2.rz.uni-mannheim.de!mw From: mw@ipx2.rz.uni-mannheim.de (Marc Wachowitz) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Subject: Re: Is C/C++ the future? Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Date: 31 Oct 1994 11:23:38 GMT Organization: --- Message-ID: <392k3q$hgv@darum.uni-mannheim.de> References: <383q62$k0v@truffula.fp.trw.com> <388a97$en1@dayuc.dayton.saic.com> <1994Oct30.210203.1863@muvms6> NNTP-Posting-Host: ipx2.rz.uni-mannheim.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:7385 comp.lang.c++:34761 comp.object:8050 Date: 1994-10-31T11:23:38+00:00 List-Id: Mark S. Hathaway (hathawa2@muvms6.wvnet.edu) wrote: [...] > What if a new language was specifically designed to allow for the use of > libraries written in COBOL, Fortran, Pascal, Modula-2, Ada, C, Smalltalk, > Lisp (or whatever widely-used languages could be included)? Isn't that the case with Ada9x, at least for some of the languages you're mentioning? (The problem with the very high level languages, as Smalltalk or Lisp, is that they may be too different from the others you mention to make a powerful and portable interface between those languages in various implementations possible - just look how different their foreign function interfaces are, if they have one at all.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * wonder everyday * nothing in particular * all is special * Marc Wachowitz