From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,60e2922351e0e780 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-21 04:53:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3FBE0ABA.4090801@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Re-Marketing Ada (was "With and use") References: <3FB0B57D.6070906@noplace.com> <3FB22125.1040807@noplace.com> <3FB3751D.5090809@noplace.com> <3FB8B9BC.5040505@noplace.com> <3FBA1118.4060105@noplace.com> <0fxub.48425$bQ3.12107@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> <3FBB6527.4040702@noplace.com> <3FBCBA38.8040000@noplace.com> <067vb.13803$iT4.1718658@news20.bellglobal.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:53:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.23.218 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1069419206 209.165.23.218 (Fri, 21 Nov 2003 04:53:26 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 04:53:26 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2796 Date: 2003-11-21T12:53:26+00:00 List-Id: Let me conclude with this: I have no opposition to a C/C++ header file translator. It removes one more roadblock to using Ada. I have doubts about how achievable it is because header files are always context sensitive and Ada package specs are not. Perhaps the best that can be done is to generate a binding 90% of the time and puke over the rest of them. I also have doubts about the relative food value of having one. It would be useful, but would the effort be better spent coming up with something that makes Ada *more* attractive to people using C/C++ in some problem domains? Rather than a binding to some C/C++ library that does graphics - why not an *Ada* library that does graphics? (More work, clearly, but it provides a chance to *innovate* and do something that might provide a good reason to go with Ada.) MDC Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > > But even if you do all this, you still have the pain of getting > C/C++ macro constants into an Ada program for use. This is > what I envision thinbind to be all about. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Trying is the first step towards failure." -- Homer Simpson ======================================================================