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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:52:30 +0100
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Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:

>> 2) There's no good, easy, almost automatic C binding generator, although
>> the language has well defined mechanisms for C interfacing. Yes, there
>> was some generator. No, it is not trivial at present to get it running in
>> my experience. There's some effort to have Ada integrated into SWIG; this
>> is promising and IMHO an important selling point to newcomers.
> 
> I think this is critical.  Why can't we just say:
> 
> with stdio;
> 
> pragma import (C, stdio, "stdio.h");
> 
> and be able to get structs, functions, constants, variables from C in
> an obvious and reasonably reliable way?

Ah, that sounds even better... One can dream...