Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming

["Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com>]

"Kevin Lawton" <kepla@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:bd96m2$omr$5@hercules.btinternet.com...
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> I have used Cobol and/or Fortran on over a dozen different platforms and
in
> every case I can recall it does not require any extension of the language
in
> order to link to a module whos source code was written in another
language.
> Whatever the source language, It is compiled to object code and is then
> linked to other object modules to become an executable. Of course, with
the
> exception of interpreted languages like BASIC or Java. It is thus the
> function of the object linker to resolve references between modules. It
> requires no extension or mis-use of the source language.

You may not have read the post correectly.  The post was to refute the
statement that someone made that to be a complete computer programming
language you must be able to do anything you can do with asm.  Having a
program that links to a program written in asm does not show that cobol or
other programs can do the same thing as asm.

I do agree that the ability to link to other languages extends the power of
languages.