MCR Backward compatibility
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From: Walter Roberson on 1 Aug 2010 23:30 Yersinio Jimenez wrote: > Dear Walter, thanks for your help. > > I think that this (mis) feature of MatLab is really really dissapointed. > If you look around, many other programming languajes have backward > compatibility, in example micro$oft with the dot net framework, for > visual basic dot net and C sharp dot net programming languajes. > > With Matworks cant do the same thing with MCR?? MCR deals with internal unpublished interfaces, the choice of which may be optimized for efficiency according to knowledge of the internals of the library. .NET and C# and C deal with published interfaces -- C in particular has a lot of inertia: it had some minor corrections 5 years ago but major revisions only about once a decade. If you look into the history of any particular Linux variant, if it has lasted even half as long as MATLAB has, it has probably undergone several upheavals in the binary interface, each one requiring recompilation. And if you start working with free-source packages to any degree, one thing you will find annoying is how often you have to update support libraries -- having to update 50 of them representing hours of compilation and a gigabyte of source, just to support a single bug fix in the program you are interested in, is not at all uncommon. Backwards compatibility is an exception rather than the rule. |