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Subject: Re: protobuff for Ada
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Interesting. I do not grasp the problem in full though...

When you say "Sorry to disappoint you in this festive time", do you mean trying a solution from ASN.1 or only trying at Protobuff?

I think I get why a Protobuff could not cover "complete" transfer of Ada types around, but how does other languages do? (Almost everyone has it) Some of these languages have relatively "complex" type system..? 

How do they achieve it? They express any complex types with a limited subset of primitive types(string, int32, etc)?

Can you give a more pragmatic example that exemplifies the limitations in Ada?

Thx,

olivier