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From: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone want to design a language?
Message-ID: <17349:05:24:18@stealth.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 90 05:24:19 GMT
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Reply-To: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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In article <111357@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> gateley@m2.csc.ti.com (John Gateley) writes:
> >3. Ability to use existing C libraries and headers.
> This is truly a difficult problem, because you have to say: "whats so
> special about C, I want my <foo> libraries" where <foo> might be Ada,
> Lisp, PDP-11 assembler, or whatever.

No. Under UNIX, for example, one can without any trickery load Fortran,
Pascal, and C routines together. This is useful, though it does dictate
that the stack be used in particular ways.

With N languages running around it's impossible to write N^2 translators.

---Dan