Linkage Declaration (was Re: Standardization (of FORTRAN, Ada, ect.))

[Henry Spencer]

In article <2086 at garth.UUCP> phipps at garth.UUCP (Clay Phipps) writes:
> [BLISS linkage control]
>Now if only the standards committees for languages like FORTRAN,
>Pascal, C, &c. would translate something like this into
>idioms that fit those languages.  I can dream, can't I ?

More like a nightmare.  Standards committees are not in the business of
doing this sort of thing without prior experience in real implementations.
When they do, the result is usually a dreadful botch.
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