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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
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Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:38:28 +0100, Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
> 
>> artifact.one@googlemail.com wrote:
>>
>>> ...
> I think this is critical.  Why can't we just say:
> 
> with stdio;
> 
> pragma import (C, stdio, "stdio.h");
> 
> and be able to get structs, functions, constants, variables from C in
> an obvious and reasonably reliable way?
> 
> Much of what is in C has direct analogs in Ada.  Some of it is via
> fiddly #defines, but even a useful subset of these would be e
> 
> And of course compilers should spit out header files on request
> matching an ada package via the "obvious" rules, so you can
> #include it from C.
> --
> Adrian
> 
> 
That would be very nice.  Notice that it's divided into two 
pieces:
1) import c header files, and
2) export header files for C
While both would be extremely useful, and 1, perhaps, more 
than 2, it seems to me that 2 would be much more readily 
accomplished.