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From: dewar@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Linking an ADA routine to a program written in C
Date: 1996/09/28
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Date: 1996-09-28T00:00:00+00:00
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Larry said

"I seem to recall about 5 languages being listed in the standard,
which hardly clarifies as "most", especially since it leaves out
some of my favorites :-)."

Actually only 3 languages are mentioned epxlicitly, and the claim should
have said "interface with most other standardized languages". Obviously
the ISO standard for Ada 95 cannot talk about nonstandardized languages
like C++ Java, or whatever.,

However, in practice, since Ada 95 can duplicate a C interface, Ada 95
can certainly interfac to anything that C (or for that matter Fortran
or COBOL) can interface to. Of course, as is generally true for interacing
from C to anything, such interfaces may indeed be non-portable.