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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.clos
Subject: Re: Lisp -vs- C
Message-ID: <4901@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Jun 91 17:21:23 GMT
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Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
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In article <42280@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> larry@postgres.Berkeley.EDU writes:

>          Although some of these problems were specific to the Lisp
>chosen (Franz Lisp Opus 42), many are inherent in mixed language systems.
>
>For example, you couldn't call arbitrary functions across the language
>boundary (e.g., C code couldn't call "cons" to create a cell and C
>allocated data couldn't be managed by the Lisp runtime system).

It's a relatively minor point, but it is possible to call functions
across the language boundary in Franz Lisp Opus 42.

It's not straightforward, but it is possible.