Re: is getting OpenGL to work with Ada a lost cause?

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com]

> newbie question:
> 
> can the opengl specification be implemented in ADA?

Why not ?
However, it is useless: for OpenGL, either you access an implementation on a graphics card, which is mostly as hardware, or absent such a card, you access a software implementation which exists on most operating systems.
For example on Windows, you access opengl.dll and do not need to care about how it is implemented. Perhaps a rare case where a DLL is _really_ useful, BTW...

> would it be faster or slower comparing such an implementation in C,
> well would it necessary have to be much slower?

No need to be slower :-). If you are interested I have made long time ago a DOS 3D engine fully in Ada, with a rendering similar to Quake 1. Full software, no OpenGL.

> is there an ada compiler that generates assembly directly, not using C then assembler?

Probably only one compiler (AdaMagic) uses C as intermediary language, the other compilers generate directly machine language, as assembler or object code.
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