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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id IAA28134
for icon-group-addresses; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 08:57:45 -0700 (MST)
Message-Id: <199903011557.IAA28134@baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU>
To: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 04:23:00 GMT
From: eodell@pobox.com (Eric O'Dell)
Subject: Re: Bridging Icon and C Calls
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Status: RO
On 23 Feb 1999 16:55:50 -0500, "Frank Lhota"
<lhotaf@lexma.meitech.com> wrote:
>I have some ideas about how this facility could be designed, and
>implemented. Before proceeding this much further, however, I would like some
>feedback. Would other Icon programmers find this useful?
I think this would be enormously useful even if it wasn't portable
from platform to platform. Being able to code speed-critical sections
in C, or just to use pre-existing C functions would be a godsend. If
it _was_ portable from one platform to another, it would be even more
useful. I'm all for it.
-E.
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