normdoering wrote:

> How about "plugins?" A lot of programs, like Corel Draw, have programs you
> can plug in to Corel to do extra fancy stuff to pictures. I think they're
> ..DLLs...?


It has been proposed before... the big problem with plugins is that there's 
no platform independent way to implement them. Windows has dll's and *nices 
have .so's etc. Plugins compiled on one platform wouldn't work on other. 
Besides, if they would be distributed in compiled form, other users 
couldn't modify them to suit their needs. Making their sources availabele 
wouldn't help much, because one would need a separate compiler to use them. 
IMO it's much better to have a dedicated, powerful language to do this kind 
of stuff.

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