From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 2 Dec 92 03:39:38 GMT From: noc.near.net!mv!world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: Open Systems closed to Ada? Message-ID: List-Id: >I know of no other program language that has the equivalent of Ada's >pragma interface. Ada may be Ada-centric, but it has *ALWAYS* >recognized and supported the notion not all software would be written >in Ada. There is an excellent file that floats over the Internet, cfortran.h, that makes it easy to call Fortran and C routines from each other on a wide variety of machines. The PC families of languages (Microsoft, Borland) have always had good interlanguage calling features, as does the DEC's VMS operating system. Greg Aharonian -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimiztion P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178