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From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner)
Subject: Re: Keeping Ada and C data structures in sync
Date: 1999/05/23
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On Fri, 21 May 1999 18:04:01 GMT, Fred Roeber <froeber@bbn.com> wrote:

>- using some sort of IDL with the appropriate compilers to derive
>  C and Ada versions of the structure definitions from the common
>  input language

This could be a good opportunity to investigate CORBA.

- Aidan (who thinks CORBA has the potential to be ridiculously useful,
but wishes the IDL wasn't quite so C-like, as he hates parenthesis)
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