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Why does one API have to prevail over another?  They all work right now, 
why not just let them all live in harmony?

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midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com wrote on 01/21/2003 11:43:09 PM:

> From: Booth Martin <Booth@MartinVT.com>
> > I can see that as the languages mature they could all meld and become 
a new
> > product that generates identical code, but from wildly different
> development
> > tools.  C, C++, Java, COBOL, RPG, CL, and others, could all reside in 
the
> > same toolbox.
> >
> 
> absolutely. But that is not the issue. All of that identical code calls 
O/S
> specific APIs. The APIs for OS/400 are different than then APIs for *nix
> or Windoze. The question is which APIs will prevail.

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