On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:

> You wouldn't believe the horrorshow of doing this via JNI, using javah
> to generate header files, add these to the projects build path, write
> wrapper in C/C++, write wrapper in Java using System.loadLibrary(). In
> other words, while the JVM/Java is about *platform interoperability*,
> the CLR/C# is about *code interoperability*. As someone who lives in a
> heterogeneous world, recognizing that some tools/languages are better
> than others for a given task, I rather like code interoperability.


Indeed. It never ceases to amaze me that Microsoft solved the multilanguage
problem in 1995, and nobody has come close to that even today. Writing a
function in language X and using it in language Y was a reality on Windows
platform more than fifteen years ago and even more so today.

-- 
Cédric

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