Re: [task #5698] First draft of CONTRIBUTING file

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> From Jason's comments, I'm getting the idea that he's suggesting that
> we accept contributions in a GCC supported language, and link them
> into the PSPP code at the object level, thus avoiding the need to
> translate them into C.   That's certainly possible, but I rather doubt
> if it'll save any work.  

For what it's worth, it is pretty easy to link Java and C++ code
into C.  GCJ makes Java pretty palatable as a system software
development language.

But C is preferred.
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