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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Using Ada (or SPARK) in Ada-unaware environment
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:26:35 +0000
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Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com> writes:

> This wrapper for the device library can be either a module or a
> separate program. Separate program makes sense, because can be
> accessed also by other controllers, which do not even need to be
> written in Ada (think about scripting tools).

I don't see why you need separate *programs* to achieve this. My
experience is with a shared library (Unix) setup:

basic.so <----+--------------------- Ada program
              |
              +---- tclbinding.so -- Tcl program

but thinking back the underlying architecture was a shared-memory
scheme and basic.so provided the interface to that. Clearly
_something_ has to be shared!