Subj : Re: Pascal
To : mark lewis
From : Scott Adams
Date : Thu Mar 24 2005 07:11 pm
-=> Quoting mark lewis to Andrew Ball <=-
ml> @MSGID: 1:3634/12@fidonet 25088fd7
ML>> using external libraries?? do you mean using external
AB> > dlls located in dllhell?
AB> I think DLLs are an MS Windows thing. I meant using platform
AB> -independent libraries such as curses and perhaps a graphics
AB> /GUI toolkit.
ml> i forgot to mention that DLL is just an extension on a filename,
ml> too... in the *nix world, they are .so files... Shared Object... they
ml> perform the function, though...
Ueay..sadly back in 3.1 days we saw it coming with the
DLL files. I had a bad shiver it would grow and now
look at the windows world. Sigh. If only we knew
then we could've maybe killed gates off? :)
... You're still a suspect, Garibaldi - Major Kemmer
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