RE: dynamic loading of dll's, ccall

From: [at]} <skulski{>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:49:55 -0500 (EST)

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> Chris Burrows wrote:
>
> Keep a close eye on .NET - one of its greatest benefits is its
> cross-language capabilities. I'm calling C# functions from Component
> Pascal
> and vice versa without needing the source code, having to worry about any
> calling conventions, header files etc. etc. All of the necessary
> meta-information is stored in the DLL itself and can be accessed in a
> human-readable form. The same applies to Delphi, Visual Basic, Eiffel,
> C++,
> and any of the other 20 or so .NET languages currently available.

Hmm, I heard Clemens Szyperski was hired by Microsoft. Does this mean
he made this work? Wirth school of thinking finally making it into the
mainstream?

Does this further imply OuS crew are all busy working for Microsoft?
This might explain why they do not answer the discussion. Would be
even more interesting.

Cheers,
W.
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