On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:21 PM, rantingrick <rantingr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 2, 6:38 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > It takes work to suit your API to a different language. Let's take GNU
> > Aspell as an example; [...] Should the Aspell team offer bindings for
> every
> > known language? In your post, you recommend supporting a minimum of
> > three. Which three? Why?
>
> No. Aspell should offer bindings for THE "Unity API" and the
> respective "abstraction communities" are then responsible for
> maintaining a plugin for their "abstraction" into THE Unity API.
>

Adding a new API is seldom the way to decrease the number of API's.  At
least, not without -=very=- centralized control over which API's get used.

I actually rather like it that no language has achieved the dominance today
that C once enjoyed, rightly or wrongly.
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