Re: Perhaps there _is_ a conspiracy against Ada

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

<<And just how did you attach callback functions to GUI objects
since the language did not support passing functions or procedures as
arguments?  Sure, each vendor defined a way to do that, but I had a
requirement to port this program to multiple architectures and compilers.>>

The ability to port a program does not mean that you require that the
program be movable with zero changes, just that the parts that need
changing are well defined and easily changed.

In fact a number of compilers implemented the semi-standard for subprogram
pointers defined by the CIFO specification, so programs written to the
CIFO spec would in fact work on quite a variety of compilers.

Note that if you required 100% portability with zero change, then you
would say that no C program is portable, which is an exaggeration!