Content of the Perl6 talk
Conrad Schneiker
schneiker at jump.net
Sat Jul 29 22:37:31 EDT 2000
Hi,
"Neil Hodgson" wrote:
> > A comment on the hope for a common runtime: I think this will buy you
> > less than you think. ...
>
> A common runtime could at least produce a common library interface.
> Wrapping each API once each for Perl, Tcl, Ruby and Python is a waste of
> time. Some APIs will be difficult to wrap because of callbacks or
threading
> issues etc., but a lot are simple and could be wrapped generically.
>
> Maybe Mark Hammond's enthusiasm for .NET is partly a desire to never
> again have to run SWIG over Microsoft's latest API changes. With .NET, all
> the languages have access to all the libraries.
>
> A message covering related topics just appeared on c.l.ruby
You can now look it up directly at:
http://x58.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=652250865&CONTEXT=964923186.1541
800008&hitnum=5
> so they may want to be included too.
Yes, please do (at least for the time being).
Thanks,
Conrad
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