Binding or not binding

[Ali Bendriss <Ali.Bendriss@drc.ion.ucl.ac.uk>]

Hello,

Could you please first excuse me if my past and maybe future posting in this 
group were (will be) sometimes awkward. But I will really like to be more 
active using and promoting Ada.

I was really interested by the thread about "How come Ada isn't more popular?"

I would like to have your opinion about the best way to go in the future, 
and in particular if binding a C library is really the way to go.
  
When we talk about reuse does it mean reusing the libraries done in an other 
language ? 
Re-implementing zlib in Ada for example. Is it a waist of time ?
How to choose ? where to start writing in Ada ?
 
If I need some compression lib like jpeg2k for example which way to go ?
I would love to be able to manipulate some DICOM image format in Ada for 
example. Most of the actual project implementing the DICOM standard are in 
C++ and java. Is it only a question of money (project funding) ? 

Thanks for your feedback in the professional and the hobbyist side.

-- 
Ali