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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,463c5796782db6d8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-09 14:04:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [Spark] Arrays of Strings Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:04:44 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <1049891888.75004@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1049908902.143649@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3719.2500 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36032 Date: 2003-04-09T16:04:44-05:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote in message <1049908902.143649@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>... >I find that the posted code looks very much like something you would >see in C (except for that awful buffer setting stuff). Ada code intended to interface to directly to C often tends to look like C - that is, it's ugly, range checking has to be turned off, and so on. That's why thick bindings like Claw are so important - they hide that cruft from view so that the majority of your program actually can benefit from Ada. If you let the C interfacing stuff spread across your program, you have gained nothing by using Ada. Randy.