Re: Ada to Motif bindings

[dale <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au>]

Glen Cornell  wrote:

> Of course, there's the ever-present
> problems of converting Ada types to and from c types.  For most X
> programmers, this is too much hassle to write an X application in Ada.
> 
> [...] There just aren't that many
> programmers out there.  Why?  Because the language doesn't fit the
> Xlib/Xt/Xm model well.


I think it fits it as well as C does. The (limited set) of programs
that i've written were no more difficult than in C.

What features in Ada do you feel causes such a mismatch?

Dale