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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 00:59:24 +0300
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On 18-05-08 08:46 , Paul Rubin wrote:

> Regarding crossing the chasm, it would sure be nice if Ada (at least
> GNAT) were more interoperable with C and C++ on Linux, in the sense of
> using the same makefiles and similar command line tools.

No no no nooooo... the Ada way is so much nicer!

For many years, I just used gnatmake to compile all my Ada programs. And 
I was so happy that I did not have write any more sh*tty makefiles. But 
gprbuild is okay, too, and of course has more functionality (libraries, 
scenario variables).

> Ada seems to want to be in its own world of Gprbuild and .prj files.

We must hope that C/C++ will come to their senses and introduce a proper 
module system, allowing an Ada-like automatic inter-module dependency 
analysis for those languages too. Banish #include...

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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