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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command?
Date: 2000/04/05
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In article <umqvh1wnaad.fsf@gong2.clustra.com>, Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ohk@clustra.com> writes:
> Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> writes:

>> But in any case, binding to C is hardly a topic that is
>> appropriate to people first learning the language!
>> 
> 
> Certainly, but writing bindings to C is one of the first things you
> have to do if you start using Ada for systems programming on Unix,
> unfortunately.

I am not sure what you mean by "systems programming" in this case.
I would presume that writing device drivers requires knowledge of
internal data structures, but don't vendors like Rational supply
bindings to Unix entrypoints that might be called by user-mode
programs ?