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Jeffrey Carter wrote:

> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> 
>> Try writing a binding to curses, to run with:
>>
>>   - UNIX real curses
>>   - GNU curses
>>   - PDcurses
>>
>> then, make it compile and work for win2k, Linux, Solaris,
>> and HPUX. Do it without gnatprep or code generation.
> 
> Where's the specification for "curses" that I'm to write a binding to? 
> Clearly it's no larger than the intersection of the 3 curses packages 
> you named. Where's your solution, that cannot be achieved with a 
> preprocessor?

The idea is to put the Ada programmer on an even keel with
the C/C++ programmer on the same platform. If from C you
can call GNU curses API xyz (or functionality provided by xyz),
they by George, it would be nice for the Ada program to take
advantage of the same feature (caveat: thick bindings do not
always make this comparison trivial, but think functionality).

By the same token, xyz may not be available to the PDcurses
programmer on some or all platforms. Win32 may be more restricted
for example.

-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://ve3wwg.tk