kilon alios <[email protected]> writes: > Sort answer is no , Pharo does not try to replace C/C++. CAD plugins > are indeed dlls and you will need C/C++ for that. I only Know Free > Pascal as another language to generate DLLs but even in that case its > extra work. > > So if you look for the most direct solution then Pharo wont cut it and > probably most other programming languages. > > Theoretically of course its possible , but someone would need to > implement this to make it easy to do and currently AFAIK none has. > > Bare in mind that DLLs are strictly a C/C++ invention and definitely > not how highly dynamic languages like Pharo work so there is no direct > need for Pharo to do such thing cause it would complicate the > workflow. I don't this is entirely true. AFAIKT Except Smalltalk can be used for generateing DLLs. However they are "compiling" to C AFAIKT. I'm quite sure that one can use ObjectArts Smalltalk also to generate niche Active X and I bet also shared libraries.
Regards Friedrich
