Re: Licenses and Libraries

[Matthias Kilian]

>       the product. I really do not need any interface to Cobol or
>       any other exotic language language but C. This would solve
>       most of _my_ problems and for this I would heartily welcome
>       anything simpler than H/Direct - no matter whether it came
>       from one camp or another.

FYI: There's a tool, SWIG available that eases the construction of interfaces
from C to several languages (Perl, Tcl, Python, Guile, an experimental
interface to Java is also available). AFAIK a new realase of SWIG is planned to
appear in late 1999. This will have more flexible interfaces for new frontends
and backends. Perhaps it is possible to write a backend for Haskell, be it the
FFI used by GHC, be it OMG IDL or whatever.

For more information, see http://www.swig.org.

Kili