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From: beckwb@ois.com (R. William Beckwith)
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 15:09:36 GMT
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Robert Dewar (dewar@cs.nyu.edu) wrote:

: The demo at Tri-Ada involved the semi-automatic translation of some 40,000
: lines of C++ headers from the inventor toolset. The actual demo was a 200
: line main program, driving, via about 30,000 lines of generated CAda
: bindings, an existing C++ code to implement the Puck game.

Not to take anything away from a very cool demo, but ...

A 200 line main program can't `drive' 30,000 lines of bindings since it
can make no more that 200 calls to the binding.

... Bill