Re: About to give up...

[Peter Amey <pna@praxis-cs.co.uk>]

Dale Stanbrough wrote:
> 
> Mr i96danma@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> 
> " I've been programming in Ada 95 for a while and like the language because of
>   it's strong type checking, OO-friendly style and clean and understandable
>   code.
> 
>   Just recently I stepped into the world of Win32-programming and got hold of
>   the Win32Ada binding, which I after some effort and a lot of help (thanks
>   Jesper!) finally got working.
> 
>   The first steps were no problem and I quickly got used to the API. The worst
>   problems though were the type conversions, where Ada's type checking suddenly
>   was an obstacle to overcome, and the fact that you always have to take care of
>   the return values, even if you don't care. And it seems as Win32 returns a lot
>   of values that are, most of the time, unimportant."
> 

I don't have any direct experience of it but doesn't CLAW from the Janus people 
provide a sensible Ada view of the Win32 world?  This might be a way of preserving 
the sanity of the original poster...

Peter

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