[Gambas-user] Financial program

[Doriano Blengino]

Jean-Yves F. Barbier ha scritto:
> Doriano Blengino a écrit :
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>> A strongness inherited from pascal... I gave a look to many, countless 
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> hmm, I don't think Pascal can define vars as temperature[-10, +50]
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What do you mean precisely? Can you define the properties of such variable?
> I'm far from a specialist, as a matter of fact I didn't used OO before
> (only C and ASM a looong time ago) so the only way I see to make a mix
> is to call external subroutines through SHELL or EXEC; but if you know
> other ways, I'm in.
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> I don't wanna end up with terrible hacks, nor spend more time to develop
> something that already exists in another language: I need it to run the way 
> I want in an easy (and maintenable) way - without headaches...
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*That* would be slow, very slooow.

There are "external" declarations in gambas (I was admired when I saw 
them the first time). That should be the way to go. I used them to 
interface the LDAP library, and it worked. But it was a pain to manage 
pointers and memory in gambas, and probably there are several quirks in 
that work. If the python lib is written in C++ instead, then things get 
worse, so an EXEC is simpler for sure (but slow). I insist on the 
slowness because you insisted on that in an earlier mail. If you want to 
process thousands rows from a database, then the exec is guaranteed to 
be out of discussion.

Regards,
Doriano