Re: Marketing Ada: Is the Sky Falling?

[marcoxa@mosaic.nyu.edu (Marco Antoniotti)]

In article <3cmr8l$q3q@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

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   Date: 14 Dec 1994 08:17:09 -0500
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   In response to Richard Pattis' comment on C++, I certainly feel that
   it makes sense for Ada implementations to have very good interfaces
   to C++ so that C++ bindings can be used with little or no effort.

The main problem with C++ is that each different compiler imposes its
own demangling scheme on the environment. This is an issue not only
for Common Lisp (for which a "standard" FFI would be more important at
this time) or Ada, but for C++ compiler developers themselves.

I would tend to look at a "language independent" approach as ILU as a
better solution toward integration of C++ stuff in other languages
(and viceversa).

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