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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada 'hello world' for Android; success!
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Date: 2011-10-29T17:09:27+01:00
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Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

> Is the traditional O-O model of Ada impossible to support
> in a compiler for Android devices or is it just that no one
> is paying for such a compiler? So that the best we can do is
> juggle the pointers that the other languages can hide?

I'd have thought it was more a problem of the bindings being
thin? Making thick bindings to a moving target is quite a challenge, of
course.