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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!proxad.net!cleanfeed1-b.proxad.net!nnrp15-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Message-Id: <45b7a3f7$0$30092$426a34cc@news.free.fr> From: Yves Bailly Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:22:41 +0100 References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <20070123211651.c0d43695.tero.koskinen@iki.fi> <87zm89tpk7.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Organization: Guest of ProXad - France NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Jan 2007 19:22:48 MET NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.56.171.53 X-Trace: 1169662968 news-4.free.fr 30092 81.56.171.53:37982 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8500 Date: 2007-01-24T19:22:48+01:00 List-Id: Maciej Sobczak wrote: > [...] > implementation - pragma Export is just as useful as pragma Import!. > In other words, you don't need to use C for implementation part even if > you want to have C API for reasons of useability. This is exacly what > the open-source guys don't seem to get right. ^^^ Please, replace that "the" by "some", or even "many" if you like ;-) I'm an open-source guy, currently creating an Ada binding to the C++ library Qt through a C layer... pragma Export, Import and exern "C" everywhere :-) Regards, -- (o< | Yves Bailly : http://kafka-fr.net | -o) //\ | Linux Dijon : http://www.coagul.org | //\ \_/ | | \_/`