On 11-Nov-2004, Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 1) Without going into technical details, describe what an FFI is.
An FFI is a "foreign function interface". I'm not sure how common the
terminology is, but it's what CMUCL calls its ... uh ... foreign
function interface. It basically allows functions in one language to
map to function calls in an external library compiled for and by another
language.
> 5) Are they sexy?
Hell yeah.
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