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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada as glue ? logical approach ?
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Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> writes:

> I have been studying ada for sometime now but I have no experience
> coding with it.

Get coding then! It won't hurt (much).

> Someone could write a full binding for a library but could someone
> also not just use the import pragma to "grab onto" the existing C
> library APIs?
>
> This would be a bit like ctypes in Python correct ? Are other list
> members writing their own 'as needed' partial bindings? Is this a
> logical approach? -Patrick

Quite a few of the "full bindings" are in fact partial; there's often a
lot of the full API that isn't immediately necessary. For example, in my
Ada 2005 Math Extensions[1], I didn't bother with the parts of LAPACK
and BLAS that deal with matrices of special forms, for example an "upper
Hessenberg", whatever that is (see [2] Table 2.1 for the full set).

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnat-math-extn/
[2] http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lug/node24.html