Re: [MiNT] WCOWORK vs WINDOM for components

[Lonny Pursell <atari@bright.net>]

on 7/24/2005 9:00 PM, Evan Langlois wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 00:49 +0200, Henk Robbers wrote:
> 
>> No, the C lib needs to be updated.
>> A lib for a language should use the conventions of the caller.
>> 
> 
> If a language can't call a C library, then it makes no sense at all to
> say that the C library needs to be updated.   I have no idea what you
> are trying to say.
> 
> Secondly, libraries are not and should not be language specific and
> cater to every possible langauge out there.  That would be madness.
> Like it or not, the world uses C.  There are tons of quality libs in C,
> and most any language developed in the last 10 years has some sort of
> interface to allow calling a C library.  If yours doesn't then contact
> your vendor.

That's actually funny.
There are no vendors left as they all left the market years ago.
At least none commercially that I am aware of regarding programming
languages for the Atari ST.  All long gone.

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Lonny Pursell    http://www.bright.net/~gfabasic/