RE: - standard libraries

From: null <">
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:49:27 +0000

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Hi Chris,

just a side note:

[...]
> Yes - the absence of standard libraries used to be a
> problem. However, that is no longer the case when using
> frameworks like .NET and JVM. e.g. I can now use an identical
> set of standard (i.e. .NET framework) libraries with
> Component Pascal that are used by a C# developer (or any of
> the other 40 or more languages available).
>

and here we have another argument to port the BlackBox
Framework over to GPCP:

Currently you cannot port a program easily from
BlackBox to GPCP (neither .NET nor JVM). If the
BB-Framework is ported, we could have applications
which run on BB-Win32 native, BB-GPCP-NET and
BB-GPCP-JVM. Sorrily BB-Mac is dead, but ...

> How we used to look at things has been turned on its head -
> instead of each language having its own set of libraries, the
> libraries (frameworks) now have a set of languages. Once a

hmm, but JVM does not really have a set of languages ...

regards

    Bernhard

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