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Can you combine multiple programming languages?
If you want to work with two programming languages use a wrapper to join them, a wrapper is a component in which you expose all the function you need to consume in the other language. It enables the integration of code written in the Java programming language with code written in other languages such as C and C++.
Is it bad to know multiple programming languages?
It is important to point out that knowing multiple programming languages makes it easier for the programmer to learn new programming languages. After learning the second programming language, the third and fourth become easier as the programmer starts to recognize similarities between languages, syntax, and semantics.
How to combine different programming languages in linker?
The former has to be done by looking up the documentation; the latter has to be looked up in the compiler that created the objects or libraries.
How are different languages compiled to the same code?
In the simple case, different languages are compiled to the same code. For example, C and C++ code typically is compiled into machine assembler or C# and VB.Net is compiled into IL (the language understood by the .NET runtime).
Can you use the same library in different languages?
Different languages can definitely use the same libraries. On the old Windows Visual Basic it was quite common to dynamically load Windows API functions, for instance. All you need for inter-language linking is an agreement on the function’s calling conventions, along with knowledge of the function names.
What’s the problem with combining different programming languages?
Linking the object files together, only at this stage the Linker checks that the functions in the object files are callable. I think that the problem with combining different languages is name mangling which means that the names of the functions are changed when they are turned into object code.