Re: About Interfacing Ada to other languages.

[Ed Falis <efalis@mediaone.net>]

You might look into putting together an Ada binding to SWIG (do a net
search).  It's been used with other languages for this purpose.

- Ed

\Didier Utheza wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your answer Ehud,
> My wish would be to be able to call directly a Prolog module from an ada
> system without having to deal with a C interface. By that I mean using a
> Prolog module called from an Ada system that would be able to exchange
> information with it. This should be possible in theory since there are
> interfaces with Fortran and Cobol. One of the advantage of an Ada/Prolog
> system is (if I can say) to give a mind to a body.
> A similar thing is hapening with java/Prolog as you said but it is
> more network oriented if i understood well. In our case, the goal would be
> to create simple models of living systems. From what you said, it looks
> like the simple solution would be to pass through a c interface since, for
> example, SWI-prolog is ready for it. But it would be nice one day to be
> able not to use c for such work. Interfacing between two different code is
> difficult enough without having to introduce the criptic aspect of c.
> I have at my disposition Feldman and Koffman 's Ada95 book as well as
> Barnes'book, but the topic of language interfacing is beyond them.
> Thanks again anyway.
>                                 Didier Utheza.