From: tmoran@bix.com
Subject: Re: Interfacing to Numerical Programming libraries (was: How to Design..)
Date: 2000/08/12
Date: 2000-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Gh5l5.100701$i5.1462416@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3994AF88.A84A6E29@netwood.net
>Ada 95 library developers are not obliged to reproduce the "compromises"
>incorporated into the design of the Fortran 77 language binding.
Unless they want the bindings to be easily used by folks familiar
with the F77 binding, or they want to avoid spending a lot of time
developing and documenting their "thick" binding, and instead want
to just point application programmers to the existing F77 manuals.
If the underlying library is a rapidly changing thing (eg, Windows),
they might well decide it's not worth the trouble to try to modify
their "thick" API and its documentation every time MS adds a new
set of functions. Perhaps it's only worth running a program to
mechanically translate the new API calls from one language to another.
---
Now to leave town for a few days....
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2000-08-10 0:00 How to Design an Application Programmers' Interface (API) E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-10 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
2000-08-10 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-10 0:00 ` vrml3d.com
2000-08-10 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-10 0:00 ` Tony T. Warnock
2000-08-10 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-08-10 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-10 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-08-10 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-10 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-08-11 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-08-11 0:00 ` David Gillon
2000-08-11 0:00 ` Peter S. Shenkin
2000-08-10 0:00 ` Toon Moene
2000-08-10 0:00 ` Jack Klein
2000-08-11 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-08-11 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-08-11 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-11 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-08-11 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-11 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-08-11 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-11 0:00 ` Interfacing to Numerical Programming libraries (was: How to Design..) Larry Kilgallen
2000-08-12 0:00 ` Sam Hobbs
2000-08-12 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-12 0:00 ` tmoran [this message]
2000-08-12 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-13 0:00 ` How to Design an Application Programmers' Interface (API) E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-08-13 0:00 ` Gregory Pietsch
2000-08-13 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-13 0:00 ` Gregory Pietsch
2000-08-13 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-13 0:00 ` Brendan Sechter
2000-08-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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