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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
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[about bindings - and their lack of]

For libraries that are no more developped, like some compression or
image formats, an alternative is to get an Ada translation and not
needing a binding anymore (a problem with a binding is that you have to
provide it and keep it up-to date for each compiler/OS/CPU
architecture, and accept that the quality of the bound library
fluctuates with the time...).
If you are lucky, there is a Pascal translation around and you can go
further with P2Ada, it is much easier than translating from C which is
very different.
It is also a good occasion to seriously debug these libraries.
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