On 29 Jan 2010, at 14:10, Juha Manninen wrote:
Now when I think of it, the new FPC language modes can solve many such
problems. I understood there are Modula2 and Objective-C modes.
There is no Modula2 mode. There is an Objective-Pascal mode, but no
Objective-C mode.
And they can use the same compiled units and libraries between
languages, or
how. (?)
Units compiled in different dialects can indeed be mixed in the same
program.
That is cool! The same benefit Parrot or .NET have but with compiled
languages.
No, it is much more limited. And of course, .NET/CIL can also be
statically compiled to machine code.
GCC supports many languages, too, but they can't use each others'
libraries so
it is quite useless.
You can perfectly use a library compiled with gcc in a gpc-compiled
program. You just have to translate the headers. Just like in case of
e.g. Objective-Pascal, you have to translate the Objective-C headers
to Objective-Pascal before you can use the library/framework for which
these headers have been written.
Jonas
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