Re: [Anima] GRASP API in C?

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Thu, 23 March 2017 18:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Anima] GRASP API in C?
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On 24/03/2017 04:43, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
>     > Hi,
> 
>     > We will discuss the GRASP API
>     > (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-liu-anima-grasp-api-03) in Chicago.
> 
>     > One related topic is how to map this API into C, which is perhaps the
>     > most fundamental mapping.
> 
> As someone who writes lots of C, I am not convinced this is a useful exercise.

Can you explain? If you're arguing that no ASAs will be written in C, that's
defensible, but maybe that isn't your argument?

    Brian