From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b68ad30ece6a8cb,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!proxad.net!cleanfeed2-b.proxad.net!nnrp19-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Return-Path: From: Ali Bendriss Organization: The Dementia Research Centre To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Subject: Binding or not binding Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:33:41 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-UCL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the UCL Helpdesk, helpdesk@ucl.ac.uk for more information X-UCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UCL-MailScanner-From: ali.bendriss@drc.ion.ucl.ac.uk X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9rc1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.191.17.134 NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Jan 2007 13:35:01 MET NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.191.14.223 X-Trace: 1170246901 news-2.free.fr 32491 88.191.14.223:56182 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8769 Date: 2007-01-31T13:35:01+01:00 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