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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Re-Marketing Ada (was "With and use")
Date: 19 Nov 2003 12:52:22 -0500
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"Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net> writes:

> Maybe the Ada folks need to design a C/C++ to Ada
> "binder", that is able to reliably take a C/C++
> include file, and generate a spec and body that
> can be used by other Ada programs (in thinish
> binding mode).
> 
> THIS NEEDS TO BE A STANDARD TOOL, that can be
> counted on to work (no tweaking required),
> to be consistent, and to be available with
> the COMPILER toolset.

Old news. Been tried many times before. Not possible in practice.

The C preprocessor is just too powerful, and is used in too many
interesting ways, to make this work.

-- 
-- Stephe