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From: Alain
Date: 4 Oct 2007 14:45:15
Message: <470534bb@news.povray.org>
nemesis nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/10/04 14:31:
> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>> nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>>>>   A library needs an interface to be used. That can't be bytecompiled.
>>> There're docs for that purpose.
>>   How is documentation going to help creating an interface to use a
>> precompiled library?
> 
> It won't.  The infrastructure is supposed to take care of that.  If Visual
> Basic or C# programs are compiled to the same "Common Language
> Infrastructure", the .NET runtime knows how to handle the binary
> interfacing of the code.  The document documents the interface:  here's a
> function foo, which takes an argument bar of type foobar etc... should be
> called from any language, using a particular syntax.
> 
> It's not different from calling precompiled native code from any language,
> including C/C++:  the linker is the infrastructure here providing the
> glueing together of binaries compiled from different languages into the
> same native interface.
> 
> 
> 
I don't think that .NET works on anything BUT Windows 2000, XP and Vista. Visual 
Basic is a proprietary Microsoft implementation of Basic, and only run on a 
Windows platform. C# comes from where? Is it from Microsoft?

-- 
Alain
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