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From: Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch>
Subject: Re: win32ada design question/problem
Date: 1998/11/23
Date: 1998-11-23T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3659963D.1D186DDF@elca-matrix.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36598497.CD4BDD47@flinet.com

Marin David Condic wrote:

> [...] Here' I'd like to have a slightly meatier interface than the
> Win32Ada interface which simply organized the types and parameters the way an
> Ada programmer would expect to see them, then having the binding translate to
> the low level Win32Ada code. Maybe we call it Win32Ada++?)

The problem with this beautiful idea is that it is never going to
happen. Look at POSIX 1003.5: it's hard to find a working implementation
even now, years after the IEEE standard was accepted. People just can't
wait for such bindings to come out, so I think we must still produce
thin automatically generated bindings so that they become available
shortly after the product that they interface. This is especially true
for Windows, which changes very often.




  reply	other threads:[~1998-11-23  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-11-19  0:00 win32ada design question/problem tmoran
1998-11-19  0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-19  0:00   ` Tom Moran
1998-11-20  0:00     ` dennison
1998-11-20  0:00       ` Tom Moran
1998-11-20  0:00       ` Ada Source Treasury (Re: win32ada design question/problem) David Botton
1998-11-22  0:00         ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-23  0:00     ` win32ada design question/problem Marin David Condic
1998-11-23  0:00       ` Mats Weber [this message]
1998-11-24  0:00         ` dennison
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-11-13  0:00 Mats Weber
1998-11-13  0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-11-16  0:00   ` Mats Weber
1998-11-18  0:00     ` Tom Moran
1998-11-18  0:00       ` dennison
1998-11-19  0:00       ` Mats Weber
1998-11-19  0:00         ` David Botton
1998-11-19  0:00           ` Mats Weber
1998-11-23  0:00             ` Marin David Condic
1998-11-19  0:00         ` dennison
1998-11-19  0:00           ` David Botton
1998-11-19  0:00       ` Mats Weber
1998-11-27  0:00     ` Roga Danar
1998-11-13  0:00 ` dennison
1998-11-16  0:00   ` Stephen Leake
1998-11-16  0:00     ` Tucker Taft
1998-11-17  0:00     ` dennison
1998-11-17  0:00       ` Mats Weber
1998-11-17  0:00         ` dennison
1998-11-17  0:00           ` Mats Weber
1998-11-17  0:00           ` Tucker Taft
1998-11-18  0:00             ` Tom Moran
1998-11-18  0:00               ` dennison
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