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<br><div><div>On Sep 6, 2007, at 9:50 , Dinesh B Vadhia wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><font color="#000080">The Erlang concurrent and distributed facilities would be significant pluses for us. What we are unclear about is Erlang's support for different languages calling our API's ie. can customers building web-based applications with Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby or Python call the API's?</font></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The languages don't matter, it's just the protocols. I've seen a lot of SOAP-based protocols that you pretty much couldn't use outside of java, and I've implemented custom binary protocols for which I've got implementations in at least three languages.<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>If the goal of the protocol is interoperability, and you actually try to achieve that goal, then you should be fine.<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>-- </div><div>Dustin Sallings</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>