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Originally Posted by Nightshade_II
A collection of code that is written in the respective language, right? I was reading on some site about multiple languages accessing the same API's and couldn't quite grasp who that was possible.
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Not necessarily. For example you can use a C library in a C++ application. PHP extensions are written in C but you would use the resulting library with PHP. Lua can use libraries written in C.
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Originally Posted by Nightshade_II
And just to clarify, code syntax is the same across all OS's then? It's just that some poor blokes at the Language developer has to get knee deep in a computer and create a compiler that can take then code and turn it into machine code for that OS?
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Yes, the syntax of say C is the same regardless of the OS. The differences aren't always limited to the compiler but the syntax is always the same.