[Info-vax] Viable versus ideal programming languages

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-03-23, Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
> In article <t1fpab$v69$1 at dont-email.me>,
> Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>It seems that everyone falls back to C interface mode when trying
>>to export functions for use by another language. A quick look around
>>seems to show that Rust does the same.
>
> I suppose that if one's definition of a well-defined ABI is what
> you are calling a "C interface mode" that's true, but most ABIs
> are language-independent.
>

It's at this point that I mention many languages directly call this a
C interface mode, including in the syntax that they provide to achieve
this... :-)

Simon.

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