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- From: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: who should specify languages?
- Message-ID: <2325@snap>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 09:42:13 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.192524.25311@newshost.lanl.gov> <1gbau5INN53d@network.ucsd.edu>
- Reply-To: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson)
- Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, UK
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- In article <1gbau5INN53d@network.ucsd.edu> mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) writes:
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- >Why do language designers never consider the interface to another language
- >worthy of the slightest standardization?
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- Eiffel has a standard interface defined through the "external"
- keyword. The interface between objects and C is well defined in
- "Eiffel: The Language".
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- Not all language designers are dumb.
-
- Paul.
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