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In article <duff.675023139@starbase> duff@starbase.mitre.org (David A. Duff) writes:
   >But the foreign function interface is a good way to get to this
   >"mainstream" software.  If you thought about it, you might be able to write
   >the interface automatically.  You could even think of LISP as the glue that
   >holds your C together.  This might give you most of the best of both worlds.

   yes, i have done a considerable amount of development with lisp in this mode
   (lisp as glue).

Unfortunately, among system programming languages, C is the least
suitable for interfacing with other languages. The main reason is C's
unfortunate confusion of arrays and pointers. ANSI C has now at least
opened the door to letting you view "pointers" as "displaced-to
arrays", but it will probably be a long time (if ever) until C vendors
catch on to the fact that the information of what range a pointer is
valid over should be kept at runtime, both for better error detection,
and to allow better interfacing with other languages.

						Thomas.