Re: Different Strokes for Different Folks (Was: Assessing a language)

(Jonathan Eifrig) wrote:
> Surprisingly, there hasn't been much work in developing
>heterogenous programming environments, to support a sort of "mix and
>match" approach to programming. Such tools would go a long way to
>alleviating the language holy wars, I think.


(Peter Ludemann) writes:
> ... The tricky part from an implementation point of view is dealing with all
> the various flavors of object code formats and the "features" of loaders
> (dare I say "bugs"?).


The biggest problem I can see with mixed environments I can see is
memory management. I tried to use Quintus Prolog to interface to C
and things worked well until my C program started to do allocation
and de-allocation, then the Prolog got real upset.


graham


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Graham Matthews
Dept Comp Sci, Edinburgh Uni
gym@dcs.ed.ac.uk
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