From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20020207094917.0098a0b0@pop3.clear.net.nz> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Andrew Simmons Subject: Re: [9fans] code complexity In-Reply-To: <3C6109BC.8F7D964B@strakt.com> References: <16689.1012955390@apnic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:49:17 +1300 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4dec41a2-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >With a DLL all share its data; you do not get a copy. I didn't think this had been true since the days of 16 bit Windows? >However, they are both evil. > I'm afraid I've been turned to the dark side here. I've found them very useful to add functionality to applications written by others - particularly MS Excel, where I've written DLL add-ins to do various things such as NZ bond pricing & pulling in data from ISAM files. There may be other & better ways of doing this kind of thing, but I don't know what they are. I believe the Oberon system has some way of adding functionality at run time.