Re: questions on Ada openGL binding in the GLOBE3D packages

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> wrote in message 
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> It does not matter really. It is the standard. It makes the code easier to
> understand if the same names are used in Ada and C and Fortran and in
> any other language. The same exact names.

Many of us write almost exclusively in Ada, and mixed case C names are a lot 
harder to understand than properly formatted Ada names. You want our code to 
be much harder to understand (by us and our colleagues) so that it is easier 
to to read C code.

Sorry, as soon as an Ada programmer has to read C code in order to get their 
work done, Ada has lost. That programmer would probably have been better off 
writing the code in C in the first place. The effort of building a binding 
is not just the binding (that's usually pretty easy), but also the effort of 
creating/translating examples (and testing them), and preferably, creating 
Ada-specific documentation as well.

Given that we are forced into a mixed-language world, there's little point 
in trying to write C in Ada. Either write Ada in Ada or C in C -- and 
interface *those* larger parts.

                          Randy.