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"Chad R. Meiners" wrote:

> "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
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> > For General Purpose (GP) programming, Ada suffers from two main
> > drawbacks:
> >
> >    1. Interfacing to the C world is an uphill battle. C++
> >       (portably) is near impossible (usually you're forced
> >       into C wrapper interfaces to C++, to do this portably).
> >
> >    2. Availability of free (or near free) compilers for the
> >       platform.
> >
> > ( 3. Libraries is another, but I am going to leave that
> >       discussion out of this post. )
>
> Actually your points 1 and 3 are the same.

Not exactly. What I meant by "libraries" was something Ada-natural
like a thick binding. The #1 case is not going to provide
that kind of API.


> True, it would be nice to have
> better interpretably with pre-existing libraries, but this usually is a
> non-issue in a academic environment.  Some students will want to learn how
> to write GUI programs and so forth, but Ada already has pre-existing
> bindings for these tasks.  I agree that it would nice to have a thin-binding
> generator.  Perhaps you could start working on one?
>
> -CRM

Warren.