From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d31a17870ca7e7e8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:05:12 -0500 From: "Steve" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1181679449.352274.217590@g37g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Interfacing to C: API with macros Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:06:15 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.111.245 X-Trace: sv3-e9YEbJNTxU2zIKKi1LkN/LOY8MyNafxgL5YCDbmU94Ri2PX8Hlvzytz5xyd2BKFv85eGvCJEjogPSo1!YhP8FaSwRFB5I/AeVR03+X3202RVDuxyMRlWjmN5wAUeKn7NWdG6aVdsNB2xyvCCFyCdoK2Sq+EO!0J9YoB6z4kdk+qtak8LJ/KRqAlxVjQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16178 Date: 2007-06-13T07:06:15-07:00 List-Id: "Maciej Sobczak" wrote in message news:1181679449.352274.217590@g37g2000prf.googlegroups.com... [snip] > Looks like in order to write any nontrivial system software the poor > Ada programmer has to start with an awful lots of wrappers - where is > maintainability and productivity when you need them? ;-) > Fortunately the Ada programmer gains enough efficiency in other areas to offset the time generating wrappers. Some tools (ie: c2ada) are available for automatically generating wrappers, but do not in general do 100% of the job. Regards, Steve (The Duck) > -- > Maciej Sobczak > http://www.msobczak.com/ >