From: Per Sandberg <per.sandberg@bredband.net>
Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:09:46 +0200
Date: 2010-07-01T23:09:46+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vu7Xn.99921$tH4.93658@hurricane> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82d3va2psl.fsf@stephe-leake.org>
I could not more then agree on that on Stephen's comment, I did a major
binding to a C-library using -fdump-ada-spec where the library interface
contained aprox 150 header files.
Never the less I had to write a higher level interface as well to get
the API:s in a more reasonable shape from an Ada perspective (there was
other requirements as well that mandated the look and feel of the Ada
API:s), but that was fairly simple and it was most boring.
But to get that amount of validated functionality in a high level
language for such a cheap price -:) -:)
Of course the amount of work to do this depends on the design and
structure of the underlying C API.
/P
On 06/29/2010 10:42 AM, Stephen Leake wrote:
> Warren<ve3wwg@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> ... in a given company, where many
>> similar projects are done, you may have large bodies
>> of existing library code. It's a tough sell to say
>> "rewrite _everything_ in Ada".
>
> Yes, that's a non-starter.
>
> Be sure to mention GNAT's -fdump-ada-spec, which generates Ada package
> specs from C code. That makes it _much_ easier to import C correctly.
>
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2010-06-19 23:01 Advice on selling Ada to a C shop usenet
2010-06-20 6:17 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-06-20 6:24 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-06-21 14:07 ` Warren
2010-06-20 7:00 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-06-20 7:40 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-06-20 12:46 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-06-21 14:23 ` Warren
2010-06-25 17:34 ` Marco
2010-06-28 13:22 ` Warren
2010-06-29 8:42 ` Stephen Leake
2010-07-01 21:09 ` Per Sandberg [this message]
2010-08-21 3:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-21 9:22 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-08-21 10:10 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-22 0:16 ` Brian Drummond
2010-06-20 9:34 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-06-20 12:35 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-06-20 17:44 ` Fritz Wuehler
2010-06-20 18:06 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-06-20 21:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-06-21 0:29 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-06-21 1:14 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-06-21 8:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-06-24 0:04 ` BrianG
2010-06-28 13:37 ` Warren
2010-06-21 8:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-06-21 9:22 ` George Orwell
2010-06-21 13:59 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-08-21 4:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-21 9:21 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-08-21 11:06 ` Brian Drummond
2010-06-21 14:40 ` Warren
2010-06-21 17:38 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-06-21 20:04 ` Warren
2010-06-21 19:47 ` starwars
2010-06-21 20:07 ` Warren
2010-06-21 14:33 ` Warren
2010-06-21 14:29 ` Warren
2010-06-22 5:01 ` Fritz Wuehler
2010-08-21 4:11 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-21 9:01 ` Pascal Obry
2010-08-21 9:24 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-06-21 8:29 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-06-21 9:58 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-06-23 15:36 ` Brian Drummond
2010-06-21 13:43 ` Warren
2010-06-22 15:00 ` Lucretia
2010-06-22 18:01 ` anon
2010-06-22 19:06 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-06-23 16:20 ` anon
2010-06-23 18:19 ` (see below)
2010-06-23 22:28 ` Brian Drummond
2010-06-23 19:57 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-06-23 20:50 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-06-23 21:24 ` Robert A Duff
2010-06-29 20:30 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-06-29 20:35 ` Adam Beneschan
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2010-07-01 11:32 ` Stephen Leake
2010-06-23 21:33 ` Robert A Duff
2010-06-24 17:25 ` anon
2010-06-24 22:18 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-06-24 7:48 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-06-24 17:24 ` anon
2010-06-24 19:34 ` Maciej Sobczak
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2010-07-06 5:37 ` David Thompson
2010-07-06 11:14 ` anon
2010-07-09 13:21 ` Marco
2010-07-09 13:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-09 14:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-09 15:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-06-22 18:06 ` Phil Clayton
2010-06-22 20:25 ` Gautier write-only
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2010-06-23 7:17 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-06-23 7:40 ` Gautier write-only
2010-06-23 11:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
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