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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.99.65.195 with SMTP id o186mr9083587pga.52.1491273890649; Mon, 03 Apr 2017 19:44:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.6.170 with SMTP id 39mr787995otx.14.1491273890603; Mon, 03 Apr 2017 19:44:50 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!y18no3995341itc.0!news-out.google.com!j72ni2001itb.0!nntp.google.com!y18no4007617itc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 19:44:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3a4da873-bbbd-40de-948e-5a3cf55b9c7f@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=203.10.91.85; posting-account=4ayn4woAAADnVypQTO_KOekJA3eJDijd NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.10.91.85 References: <510a4934-6292-4067-b4ca-3ec6cfad6e47@googlegroups.com> <4d193ed7-a379-441c-ac1b-1f72eddceb54@googlegroups.com> <3a4da873-bbbd-40de-948e-5a3cf55b9c7f@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4ef49b3b-2db7-45bf-877a-ff361143257b@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Installing AdaSDL to a Debian system From: LaeMing Ai Injection-Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 02:44:50 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:46526 Date: 2017-04-03T19:44:50-07:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, 4 April 2017 00:47:10 UTC+10, Lucretia wrote: > On Sunday, 2 April 2017 07:39:10 UTC+1, LaeMing Ai wrote: > > Thanks for assistance so far. > > > > I ended up getting SDL working in C enough to realise it is still too high level for what I want to achieve anyway. :-/ > > > > Moving on to X11ada... > > You're not making any sense. If C is too high level, WTF are you posting on comp.lang.ada? Ada is a high level language with low level access to things. What I posted was a way to get at the pixel data in 1 and 2 dimensions, that is what you wanted. SDL is too high level - doesn't seem to support raw pixel manipulation without excessive hoop-jumping. C is portable machine code. I can write stuff in it when I have to, but am rather keen on using Ada where possible.