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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada and C++ in the same binary, was: Re: Current status
 of Ada development for an Android target ?
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 15:28:56 +0100
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Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk> wrote:
> Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
>> The C++ idea is for the low level code which could be used elsewhere.
>> If I write that low level code in Ada then how do I port it to a
>> target which may not have an Ada compiler available for it?
> 
> The expensive solution is to use AdaMagic, which compiles to C
> (including run-time support).
> 
> But writing in C++ is expensive as well.
> 
> The difference is just when you pay the price.  With AdaMagic, you only
> pay once you need to.

That's not really an option though is it. There are numerous c and c++
compilers for various targets. Not true for Ada.