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On 29/10/2011 10:09 AM, Simon Wright wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus<rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>  writes:
>
>> Is the traditional O-O model of Ada impossible to support
>> in a compiler for Android devices or is it just that no one
>> is paying for such a compiler? So that the best we can do is
>> juggle the pointers that the other languages can hide?
>
> I'd have thought it was more a problem of the bindings being
> thin? Making thick bindings to a moving target is quite a challenge, of
> course.

That can be one of the advantages of a thick binding though.
It can insulate client code from changes to the lower level API,
(as long as the low level changes aren't too drastic)

It just takes someone to maintain the bindings.