August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
15h 3m
English
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Options for Procedural Languages
It's not that you don't have any options with strictly procedural languages like C, COBOL, and FORTRAN. It's just that your options are somewhat limited and nonstandard. I'll discuss three basic options here.
The first option involves linking routines in an XML supporting object-oriented language, probably C++, with your application. Digital Equipment (later Compaq and now part of Hewlett Packard) as early as 1978 supported a calling and linking standard that allowed modules written in any language on the VMS operating system to call modules in any other language. Even today not all operating systems and development environments offer this support or offer it as transparently. However, many do. If you happen to ...