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From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Re: ILU for VHLL FFI [was: RFD: Programming Language Feature Matrix]
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One of the things that I liked about Apple's aborted efforts on Dylan was
this nifty add on they had - I think it's name was Creole or something similar.
I saw it on several of their developers videos.  Anyways, you handed a 
header file describing the structures and prototypes for your C code to
it, and it generated the Dylan interface glue for you.  Perhaps there
were a few notational concessions you had to make - there wasn't a lot of
details in the videos at that level.  The neat thing was though that you used
the same header file that C programs which wanted to use your C code would
use to generate the Dylan glue.

Now that, in my mind, is the general interface that _I_ would prefer to use.
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