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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9437,af2a2eba862de485 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9437,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,af2a2eba862de485 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ee3a575a8acb318d,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dg@poboxes.com Subject: Re: RFD: comp.windows.curses (Ada) Date: 1997/06/12 Message-ID: <866127932.6765@dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 247899343 References: <864986194.12186@isc.org> <5mn26e$nfg$1@henson.cc.kzoo.edu> <5nlui1$f97$1@narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> To: rra@stanford.edu, dickey@clark.net, juergen.pfeifer@t-online.de X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/2.01E-NC250 (Win16; U) X-Originating-IP-Addr: 199.35.201.207 (aus-tx6-15.ix.netcom.com) Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Jun 12 15:05:33 1997 GMT X-Authenticated-Sender: dg@poboxes.com Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: My understanding is that ncurses is a C library. My understanding is that what Russ Allbery is referring to is an "Ada binding", and that this is a set of headers and interface routines to allow the use of ncurses FROM an Ada application, but that ncurses is still a C library. 1) Could someone verify, clarify, or correct what an Ada binding is, by a posting to "news.groups" or "comp.lang.c"? I have not personally used the Ada binding, just read about it. 2) If ncurses is not just a C library, what would Russ think about "comp.programming.libraries.curses"? Daniel Goldman In article <3vi3lo03y.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU>, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Hans Steffani writes: > > Kenneth P. Turvey writes: > > >> How about something that indicates that curses is a library, like > >> comp.windows.libcurses or something like that? > > > As this library used together with C most times (hopefully correct > > assumption) then maybe comp.lang.c.curses or comp.lang.c.libs.curses may > > be a good idea. > > Given that the ncurses distribution includes an Ada library, I don't think > this is a good idea. > > -- > Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet