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On 07/02/2011 06:46 PM, rantingrick wrote:
> On Jul 2, 6:38 pm, Chris Angelico<ros...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> It saddens me when i see API's that don't include at least three
>>> language choices. No *one* language is going to please the masses.
>>
>> C or C++ bindings will cover most languages.
>
> This is pretty much the entire argument, everything else is
> exposition.

So you've got 3 interfaces: C, C++, and for the die-hards, 
Assembly.  Sounds like you should be happy then ;-)

(what?  they weren't *your* top-3 language choices?)

-tkc


One API to rule them all,
One API to find them,
One API to bring them all
and in the darkness create bindings for them?