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? :)


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