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From: jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: C to Smalltalk
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Date: 27 Aug 90 12:24:05 GMT
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In article <381@scubed.SCUBED.COM>, warner@scubed.com (Ken Warner) writes:
> In article <81923@aerospace.AERO.ORG> obrien@aerospace.aero.org
(Michael O'Brien) writes:
> >
> >In article <1780@abvax.UUCP>, jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker) writes:
> >|> I know this is a naive question, but is it possible to
> >|> call smalltalk methods from C using either the Digitalk
> >|> or Park Place products ?
> >
> 
> I am curious.  What sort of things did you (Jack) want to do that you
feel are
> best done in this way.  And why could you not go the "other" way by calling C
> functions via primitives from Smalltalk?  
> 

I am interested in building libraries using Smalltalk that are usable
(callable)
from other languages such as C, Pascal, Assembler, etc.

-jaz

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