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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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"Lucretia" <laguest9000@googlemail.com> wrote in message 
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> 9) Update the Interfaces.C package to include new types in the newer C 
> specs.

That most likely will get done at some point before Ada 2020 gets done. But 
it might be best to send a comment so it gets an agenda item; it would be 
useful to know which new types you find relevant.

...
> 11) Including bindings to other languages that are starting to appear?

As I previously noted, we can only reference languages that have ISO/IEC 
standards (there might be a few other kinds of standards that are 
acceptable, but most aren't). That reduces the universe of what we could do 
quite a bit.

It's the same reason that we can't name Windows or Linux in the standard, 
which is why Ada.Directories.Information is defined as 
"implementation-defined" and Windows and Linux versions are given in an AARM 
note.

Moral: not everything can be done in the language standard. You need an 
implementer focused on mobile applications if you're going to see much 
progress in that field. Etc. The downside of having one dominant vendor is 
that they're going to set the agenda in many ways, and that agenda is thus 
safety-critical embedded systems.

                                   Randy.