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-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <20070123211651.c0d43695.tero.koskinen@iki.fi> <87zm89tpk7.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> From: Markus E Leypold Organization: N/A Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:18:47 +0100 Message-ID: <4q4pqgmdwo.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GUJzFc1vLuU9VJzHMi8wSo6ozG0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.216.226 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1169666051 88.72.216.226 (24 Jan 2007 20:14:11 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.germany.com!news.unit0.net!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8501 Date: 2007-01-24T20:18:47+01:00 List-Id: Maciej Sobczak writes: > both languages are easily "bindable". You can even have C API for Ada > 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. So Ada = Closed Source = Good and C = Open Source = Bad or something like this? I don't understand it. Apart from that, me seems it would be a bit difficult to have a C API to some Ada library, since Ada requires quite a lot of runtime support for tasking, so certainly doesn't interact to well C-code which also use signals, longjmp etc. Regards -- Markus