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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Is ADA as good for graphics programming as C? (WAS: Re: Avoiding
 the second historic mistake)
Date: 1997/06/20
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Mukesh says

<<But assuming you are current in Ada, and
if you wish to dispel the notion that
such work is easier in C/C++, perhaps
you (or anybody else volunteering)
could post a brief segment on how one
would scan-convert a triangle and set up
the bits on a CGA (without taking advantage
of graphics libraries from vendors -- since
in C/C++ much of such work happens even before
vendor libraries are in place.)  Let us say
the platform is basic MSDOS (where C was
actually used heavily in 80s
for much low-level graphics work).>>


This sounds trivially easy to do in Ada, so perhaps we are missing something.
To make sure we are not, post the C code that represents what you are trying
to do (or rather see how Ada could do).

If you have not used Ada since 1983, then that's a bit like saying you
have not voted since you were 18, since 1983 was the year that the Ada
language was standardized, and it took many years before really capable
compilers were available, so your experience provides no clue at all really.