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- From: Graham Matthews <gym@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: Different Strokes for Different Folks (Was: Assessing a language)
- Reply-To: Graham Matthews <gym@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:55:58 GMT
- Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- Message-ID: <93-01-177@comp.compilers>
- References: <93-01-082@comp.compilers> <93-01-156@comp.compilers>
- Keywords: prolog, functional
- Sender: compilers-sender@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
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- (Jonathan Eifrig) wrote:
- > Surprisingly, there hasn't been much work in developing
- >heterogenous programming environments, to support a sort of "mix and
- >match" approach to programming. Such tools would go a long way to
- >alleviating the language holy wars, I think.
-
- (Peter Ludemann) writes:
- > ... The tricky part from an implementation point of view is dealing with all
- > the various flavors of object code formats and the "features" of loaders
- > (dare I say "bugs"?).
-
- The biggest problem I can see with mixed environments I can see is
- memory management. I tried to use Quintus Prolog to interface to C
- and things worked well until my C program started to do allocation
- and de-allocation, then the Prolog got real upset.
-
- graham
-
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- Graham Matthews
- Dept Comp Sci, Edinburgh Uni
- gym@dcs.ed.ac.uk
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