Hasn't writing a function in language X and using it in language Y been a reality on the Java platform for a while now?
2012/1/20 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > > > > > 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. > -- Jeb Beich http://www.red-source.net/jeb -- 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.
