Re: ORBit (was Re: * mico)

[Phillip Dawes <philipd parallax co uk>]

Elliot Lee wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Philip Dawes wrote:
> 
> > The other issue is objective C. This is Elliot's favourate
> > 'close-to-the-metal' oo language, and AFAIK we're a bit dubious about
> > getting that to link with a C++ orb.
> 
> ObjC is in my mind, yes, but I'm also concerned about guile, python,
> perl, and all those other languages that tie in to C much more easily than
> they do to C++ (I think you have to basically provide a C interface to the
> C++ stuff, right?)

Actually swig provides direct wrappers to C++ code. Of course it doesn't
support many of the new standard C++ features, but then nor do many C++
compilers at this point in time!.

Cheers,

Phil

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