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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: what is current status of OpenGL and Ada?
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:34:44 -0600
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Date: 2012-02-05T06:34:44-06:00
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On 2/5/2012 6:00 AM, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
> Le Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:52:25 +0100, Nasser M. Abbasi<nma@12000.org>  a
> écrit:
>
>> current OpenGL is 4.2, released 8,2012.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL
>>
>> previous version was 3.3.
>>
>> The Ada openGL binding I could find is
>>
>> http://adaopengl.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> and was last updated on 2003 !  This is like 100 years ago
>> in computer years.
>

> Not necessarily. The 2003's API may match your needs. Check it before,
> only then you will know (newer ≠ better).
>

I do not have specific needs, just wanted to learn basic openGL
a little, and thought why not use Ada. But this binding is
very old, and  many releases behind current openGL version.

I can use c++ and use the current openGL, or use Ada and
use much older API version to learn from.

It seems all the Ada pages related to this are old. Here is
another related page referenced in the readme for Ada openGL

http://home.arcor.de/hfvogt/programming.html

and it was also last updated in 2002.

It looks like the people who did this initially are all gone
to do other things.

I like Ada more than C/C++, but it seems to me, it is easier
and more useful to just use C++ for this sort of thing.

Thanks,
--Nasser