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On 04.09.13 11:14, e.s.harney@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm not sure of how helpful it will be in covering all details that are relevant to writing useful software these days (things like utf8, interfacing with C, etc.).

That would depend on what "these days" turns out to be;
writing bindings to function libraries (code written in
C, say) is a concept from the 1970s. Not surprisingly,
that's a technique present in Ada's definition (LRM B.3,
B.4, and B.5). Still used. ISO 10646 is mandatory for
current Ada, so UTF-8 won't be a problem.

"These days", on PC hardware, chances are that binding
objects/types is more adequate than binding functions,
even on GNU/Linux.
Actually, Ada compilers for .NET or for the JVM do
just that in a natural way using tagged types.