Barry,
Like Clint said, there is a prototype "vastly improved" C
interface that essentially allows inlining of C calling. It
started with the work of Clint's student Batchu, and I've
cleaned it up and written it as a literate program in noweb.
It almost works, and I (and Clint) would be happy to
collaborate with you on this, if you are so inclined.
Kostas
Barry Schwartz wrote:
> Clinton Jeffery <[email protected]> skribis:
>> I am not gonna contradict anyone to whom I owe as much as Barry Schwartz,
>> the "font guy" who gave us our native AMD64 co-expression switch. :-) But
>> his comment about interfacing does deserve some expansion.
>
> It didn't contradict me, anyway, and I have used the old Icon FFI --
> the first version of my hobby typesetting software was written in
> Unicon -- and really the main thing I would have said about that is it
> needed some higher level stuff added so one could easily access lists,
> records, and tables. That and make it embeddable within
> C/etc. programs.
>
> Tangentially related: They are using Lua as an embedded extension
> language for the new TeX variant LuaTeX, which is great, and my
> comment was that this is how TeX should have been done already in the
> 1980s, using Icon. I think of all the human lifespan spent on
> programming in TeX macros, and shudder; Icon would have been much
> better.
>
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