Re: Nontrivial examples of C interface with Ada

[Geoff Bull <geoff@research.canon.com.au>]

tmoran@bix.com wrote:

>   My preference is to start from the point of view of someone about to
> design a spec for some abstraction (socket, Windows clipboard or dialog
> box, etc).  "How would I do this in Ada?".  Then the body tries to
> implement the abstraction using C calls.  Admittedly, sometimes the
> simple, clean, abstraction needs some warts added to allow some of the
> strange functions, or to fit the restrictions of, the underlying C, but
> usually you can make something reasonably clean.  You can't just do a
> translation of the C docs, but instead you have something that makes
> sense and can be explained, usually, more simply.

OTOH, if you make it thin as possible, you don't have to do any docs at all
- can't get simpler than that.