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Lähettäjä: Hendrik Boom
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Vastaanottaja: Didier Kryn
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Aihe: Re: [Dng] OT: Programming languages again.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 04:16:48PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
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>     Just the following restriction: please, when your piece of
> software is first of all an API, like dbus is, let it be not too
> much language-oriented. I mean don't force other programmers to
> think like you, or, worse, don't make the API only usable by
> applications written in one language.


Agree. Let me regret that the garbage-collected languages, my
favourites, are at the moment the worst for implementing such widely
usable APIs, because each one has its own garbage collector, and they
don't know how to cooperate.

-- hendrik