D vs. C#

[Walter Bright]

Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:41:26 +0300, Vladimir Panteleev
> <thecybershadow at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:22:50 +0300, Walter Bright
>> <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Except that .net cannot talk to C or C++ code, which are the
>>> usual languages for applications.
>> .NET (at least C#) can call native code in DLLs. Unlike Java, you
>> can also define the exact layout of structures, and thus share data
>> structures with native code.
> 
> Here's some documentation on it: 
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288468(VS.71).aspx
> 
> Note that you can also specify one of several calling conventions:
> Cdecl, Stdcall, Thiscall (which allows some basic OOP simulation) and
> Winapi (same as Stdcall on Windows).
> 

Thanks for the reference. It says that the parameters must go through 
"marshalling", which means they go through a translation layer.