From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Received: by 2002:a05:620a:4610:b0:759:2619:911d with SMTP id br16-20020a05620a461000b007592619911dmr1599824qkb.2.1684023471419; Sat, 13 May 2023 17:17:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a81:bc09:0:b0:55d:95b7:39d8 with SMTP id a9-20020a81bc09000000b0055d95b739d8mr17310650ywi.7.1684023471097; Sat, 13 May 2023 17:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!border-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 17:17:50 -0700 (PDT) Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=108.162.150.35; posting-account=DDNtpAoAAAAV3hXmyMtxrpph6Q7ui96s NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.162.150.35 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <0828fc56-9cb3-41a7-a29d-fa4d58e43541n@googlegroups.com> Subject: Ada Scales Down! From: Hou Van Boere Injection-Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 00:17:51 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:65222 List-Id: Hi Everyone Just a little cross post: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/cobol/thread/5f771109ad/ I am having so much fun with Ada again. I think the foreign binding example= s on the net are horrible. With little wimpy inline packages, you can bring= foreign code in easily. Everyone complains about C but a teenager can fool around with it on a week= end and end up a C programmer a few years later. Ada does not present this = way but it fact it is easy to write little wimpy programs in it just for fu= n and even wimpy programs will often need non-Ada libraries. -Pat