Re: Thinking of using Ada for a job at home. Couple of questions first.

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jonathan expounded in news:dc294dc4-c89d-4cc0-9826-ac2848277771
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> On Mar 9, 2:49�pm, Warren Gay <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is the one main issue that made me give up on Ada a few
>> years back. It seemed that every project that I wanted
>> to do, required me to create a "binding" for this and
>> another for that. Sing "It's a C/C++ world after all".
..
>> Another approach might be to create a "binding translator".
>> Feed a C/C++ preprocessed output into the translator and
>> crank out some ugly but functional package(s).

> Some more detail on the AdaCore binding translator Jacob mentioned ...
> Recently I decided I wanted a binding to C package, googled for
> a tutorial, and found gem 59 and gem 60
> 
> http://www.adacore.com/2009/02/23/gem-59/
> 
> Thanks AdaCore!  I couldn't have written a binding myself even
> in the easiest limit. All I did was type (iirc)
>        g++ -c -fdump-ada-spec -C  file_name.h
> and it wrote the thing for me.  Lot's of tedious complications
> due to C strings and the like were taken care of.  A few things it
> did wrong, but not too bad .. even I could fix it.
> 
> Jonathan

Hey, that is good news! I'll definitely check it out. 

Even if you have to run it on several platforms + tweak 
each one, it would be a great time saver over the present 
manual process.

Warren