[Info-vax] Viable versus ideal programming languages

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/23/2022 4:58 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 3/23/2022 2:35 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> It seems that everyone falls back to C interface mode when trying
>> to export functions for use by another language.
> 
> Not really.
> 
> Almost all languages has a way to specify:
> - do not mangle/decorate the function name
> - use platform specific calling convention
> 
> And some like to call that C interface.

Because C (or C++) are very frequently the
calling language.

> But it really isn't.
> 
> Not mangling/decorating is a common concept.
> 
> Platform specific calling conventions are
> not C specific.

Arne