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> Could you please elaborate? Bizzare in what sense? Bizzare or
> simply difficult, as "beyond my comprehension" would suggest?
Well, after all these years, I'm still not sure that I
understand what a "Store" is! Also, a robust ASCII file
I/O didn't come with the framework (other than a trivial
example showing how it could be done), so I had to
write my own.
> Important point: keep backward compatibility and support for
> legacy DLLs. Something that .NET probably would be happy
> not to do. Was this a limitation of the GPCP or the .NET
> in general?
It's a GPCP compiler limitation -- I could actually interface
with legacy DLL's if I used C#, and I suspect I could
write a C# interface module to exchange date between
GPCP and Legacy Fortran DLLs.
> Is it at all possible to do both, move to .NET and keep
> supporting legacy DLLs?
Yes. One just has to convince the compiler writer to
support it. :-)
Marc
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