Clinton Jeffery <[email protected]> skribis: > I am not gonna contradict anyone to whom I owe as much as Barry Schwartz, > the "font guy" who gave us our native AMD64 co-expression switch. :-) But > his comment about interfacing does deserve some expansion.
It didn't contradict me, anyway, and I have used the old Icon FFI -- the first version of my hobby typesetting software was written in Unicon -- and really the main thing I would have said about that is it needed some higher level stuff added so one could easily access lists, records, and tables. That and make it embeddable within C/etc. programs. Tangentially related: They are using Lua as an embedded extension language for the new TeX variant LuaTeX, which is great, and my comment was that this is how TeX should have been done already in the 1980s, using Icon. I think of all the human lifespan spent on programming in TeX macros, and shudder; Icon would have been much better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
