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Re: Functional Developer UNICODE support + source?
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To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
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Subject: Re: Functional Developer UNICODE support + source?
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From: Chris Double <chris@double.co.nz>
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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 21:45:01 -0400 (EDT)
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"Mark Jordan" <Mark_Jordan@nospam.btinternet.com> writes:
> That's the reason I've decided to standardise on C interfaces for
> any libraries I write in future. That way I can use these libraries
> forever without any problems with any new language that happens to
> come along.
One of the problems I had programming for the BeOS was that their API
was C++ based. When using Dylan or other languages it was very
difficult to interface to the windowing system without writing a C
wrapper for their entire API.
Chris.
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