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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
