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Subject: Re: ada without ada libraries?
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On 02/07/2012 04:14 PM, Patrick wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> I just got my compiler set up the way I want it and I am ready for my
> first ada project.
>
> I have spent sometime with lua. Lua's library support is terrible but
> lots of people love the language. Many people just build a rough
> skeleton application in C and call it from lua.
>
> Lua handles all the type checking and much of the logic in this
> arrangement and C is mostly just library code.
>
> Would this same approach seem logical for ada? -Patrick

This might make sense, if you're claiming that Ada's "library support is 
terrible"; else, why would you make this comparison?  It sounds like you 
want to use Ada, but not use the Ada libraries.

If you instead want to use Ada with a library for which you don't have 
an Ada interface, you can build (or look for) a binding to that library. 
  This is done in Ada, not in another language.  See the Ada packages 
Interfaces.*.  Typically, you don't need to program in anything except 
Ada - that way, you get Ada's protection (to the extent possible) in 
with binding, just not within the library itself.

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