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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
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Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do?
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:57:43 +0100
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n_brunot@my-deja.com wrote
>A very huge part of those packages is simply writing specifications, and
>pragma import ...
>Which requires some work in Ada, while you would have absolutely nothing
>to do in C.
>This is of very high cost.

Which you recouperate during development and debugging. It looks like overhead,
but is really an investment which pays off handsomely when you use them. The
bindings insure that you are using the interface correct. This is something you
can't get with the standard C header files.

C header files tend to contain only so much information that the source
compiles. It creates a lot of opportunity for problems which are more costly
than writing a Ada or Delphi binding.

Greetings,