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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Re-Marketing Ada (was "With and use")
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"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
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> For General Purpose (GP) programming, Ada suffers from two main
> drawbacks:
>
>    1. Interfacing to the C world is an uphill battle. C++
>       (portably) is near impossible (usually you're forced
>       into C wrapper interfaces to C++, to do this portably).
>
>    2. Availability of free (or near free) compilers for the
>       platform.
>
> ( 3. Libraries is another, but I am going to leave that
>       discussion out of this post. )

Actually your points 1 and 3 are the same.  True, it would be nice to have
better interpretably with pre-existing libraries, but this usually is a
non-issue in a academic environment.  Some students will want to learn how
to write GUI programs and so forth, but Ada already has pre-existing
bindings for these tasks.  I agree that it would nice to have a thin-binding
generator.  Perhaps you could start working on one?

-CRM