Re: Non-C bindings in GNOME

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 15:41, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Murray Cumming writes: 
> 
> > I doubt that it's possible to find a common ground for all programming
> > languages, and it's clear that the current VM/CLR ideas do not succeed
> > in this. It might cover lots of intentionally-under-featured languages
> > (e.g. Java, VB) and interpreted languages (e.g Perl, Python), but not
> > all programming languages. .NET's "Managed C++" is a perfect example of
> > this, and I don't want to go there. 
> 
> Managed C++ only exposes bits for your application to interact with the VM 
> in a controlled fashion.  You are not required to use any extensions if you 
> just want to run on the CLR. 
> 
> You just compile with the /clr option to the C++ compiler and feed all your 
> existing code to it.  In fact, making Word compile with the /clr compiler 
> was a routine test. 

But surely any CLR API could only be used from Managed C++ not all of
C++. I believe that means use of Managed C++ extensions and no use of
some regular C++ techniques.
 
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Murray Cumming
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