Re: bobP and simplified ifc

[Roger Gregory <roger>]

>From vlad!mark Fri Jun 29 20:12:52 1990
	Subject: bobP and simplified ifc
	Status: R

	   Date: 28 Jun 90 16:09:13
	   From: heh <xanadu!xanadu.com!heh>

	   ...

	   poor (novice) c++ developer:
	     "I just want a f*****g array! what's all this Region and Position junk?"

	   ...

	I wasn't suggesting that BobP work on top of all of xpp.  Just
	(approximately) tofu, bombs, garbage collection (maybe), and comm
	support.  Little to learn & very hard to do without.

I was proposing that BobP work ontop of xpp, but
NONE OF OUR XPP STUFF WILL SHOW THROUGH in the C & C++ interface.
Certainly the tofu, bombs and gc can't show through to the C programmer, in
face when (if) we reimplement spire in "C" they will go away.
It is very important that the C interface not be contaminated with C++isms,
otherwise there is little reason to bother with it.