Re: Is C/C++ the future?

[janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen)]

In article <1994Oct30.210203.1863@muvms6> hathawa2@muvms6.wvnet.edu (Mark S. Hathaway) writes:

   Isn't the problem of libraries one of major importance these days?  Every
   language has it's own libraries and they're not compatible and some are
   so closely attached to an operating system that they're not very portable
   and...<argh>

   Once you've got a good procedural language like Pascal, Modula-2, Ada, C,
   etc. there should be an extension of that utility by having better
   reusability across languages.

Libraries, IMHO, should be written and documented as ILU "true"
modules.  ILU provides an interface specification technology
specifically designed to eliminate the differences between API's (in
terms of data normalization, resource management strategies, error
handling policy, etc.) exported by different languages (or even
different designers of class libraries in a single language).

   Then, what set of functions/procedures/classes/etc. would constitute
   completeness?

See the ILU spec,
ftp://parcftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/1.6.4/manual-html/manual_1.html.

For sources and usage information, see
ftp://parcftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html.

Bill
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