From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3c71c73810e4b27f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!tethys.csu.net!nntp.csufresno.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Love Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada95 skills test - Beta version(FREE) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:03:59 -0000 Organization: Message-ID: <20060224180411792-0600@news.airmail.net> User-Agent: Halime (MacOSX)/1.0rc2b MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1140536659.668454.34800@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <20060223202559946-0600@news.airmail.net> <5NeCDMAkzSu1@eisner.encompasserve.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3153 Date: 2006-02-25T00:03:59+00:00 List-Id: In <5NeCDMAkzSu1@eisner.encompasserve.org> Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <20060223202559946-0600@news.airmail.net>, Robert Love > writes: >> In Stephen Leake wrote: > >>> This I disagree with. Many libraries are only available in C, >>> as are most operating systems. Ada is very good at interfacing with >>> C, so it is appropriate that the topic be covered in some way. >> >> That's true but how man Ada textbooks cover linking with C. I wish >> ALL Ada books had a chapter on linking with foreign languages, with >> plenty of examples. > > Linking is specific to operating systems, and thus not suitable for > most Ada books. OK, I should have said "interfacing", not linking, the point is I don't see many Ada textbooks that have a chapter on how to use C libraries or Fortran libraries with Ada code. That's how this sub thread started.