[#7055] More on VC++ 2005 — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>

Okay. I've got Ruby compiling. I'm attempting to get everything in

17 messages 2006/01/05
[#7058] Re: More on VC++ 2005 — nobuyoshi nakada <nobuyoshi.nakada@...> 2006/01/06

Hi,

[#7084] mathn: ugly warnings — hadmut@... (Hadmut Danisch)

Hi,

22 messages 2006/01/10
[#7097] Re: mathn: ugly warnings — Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...> 2006/01/10

Hadmut Danisch wrote:

[#7098] Design contracts and refactoring (was Re: mathn: ugly warnings) — mathew <meta@...> 2006/01/10

Daniel Berger wrote:

[#7118] Re: Design contracts and refactoring (was Re: mathn: ugly warnings) — mathew <meta@...> 2006/01/12

*Dean Wampler *<deanwampler gmail.com> writes:

[#7226] Fwd: Re: Question about massive API changes — "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...>

Hello,

23 messages 2006/01/28
[#7228] Re: Question about massive API changes — Caleb Tennis <caleb@...> 2006/01/28

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Re: Question about massive API changes

From: "Sean E. Russell" <ser@...>
Date: 2006-01-31 02:25:32 UTC
List: ruby-core #7252
On Sunday 29 January 2006 15:56, mathew wrote:
> Is there some reason why a thin API facade is impossible? You wouldn't
> need to make it high performance.

What do you mean by an API facade?

> > Java 1.0 -> 1.5 didn't break anything.  Java 1.0 code is legal 1.5 code.
>
> Which is why Java has (for example) at least four different equivalents
...
> Java took the approach of not wanting anything to break ever, because

Which, IME, they failed at.  I've had to rewrite Java code to get it to work 
with newer VMs.

> Perl is another example of the "sounds good, throw it in" approach to

You'll notice that none of the languages you've mentioned have built-in 
support for versioned libraries.  It isn't quite clear to me why this keeps 
getting missed in language design, especially in the younger languages.

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