[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-02-25, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>>In article <ttd4ta$2j12a$2 at dont-email.me>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
>>wrote:
>>
>>> There are of course also some differences. C# got
>>> unsafe blocks with pointers (nobody use them) ...
>>
>>The main thing those are useful for is calling native code. It's way
>>easier than using JNI. 
>
> Which of course defeats the whole purpose of having a sandbox... but that's
> Microsoft...
> --scott

Nothing to do with Microsoft, at least for me.

My experience with JNI is using it on Android.

My experience with JNI also tells me that whoever designed it had better
not hang around anyone using it in the real world. :-)

Simon.

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