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In article <atcju3$svh$1@slb5.atl.mindspring.net>, "Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org> writes:

> Also, if I were doing it, I wouldn't make bindings. I think that just ends u
> p in the "Me Too!!!" category and makes your stuff dependent on what happens
> in another language - also requiring you to haul around another compiler. If
> you wanted a curses package, it would be better (and not that big a deal) to
> implement it from the ground up in Ada and give it an Ada flavor while
> you're at it. You could probably even dramatically improve it beyond just
> cursor positioning and the like - give it more of a GUI feel (DEC had
> something like this - pasteboards, windows, etc, all out of VT220's.)

It is called SMG, and the entrypoints and features might make a useful
design input for an Ada-style equivalent.  Calling SMG from Ada works
fine (on VMS) but it doesn't flow naturally.