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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
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On Jan 23, 9:56 pm, "Dr. Adrian Wrigley"
<a...@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk> wrote:
>
>  Why can't we just say:
>
> with stdio;
>
> pragma import (C, stdio, "stdio.h");
>
> and be able to get structs, functions, constants, variables from C in
> an obvious and reasonably reliable way?
>

That, would be one of the most beautiful things I'd seen in computing
if it existed!

MC