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As we saw above,
the IPC facilities can be integrated with a programming language,
that is,
a programming language would provide the interface to invoke them (e.g. Ada).
The advantage is
the ability to communicate values of programmer-defined types, type checking,
and and the possibility of using high-level
declarative constructs.
The disadvantage the inability of
processes written in different languages to communicate with each other.
Prasun Dewan
2006-02-02