geb@amber.Rational.COM (Gary Barnes) (03/01/90)
Is there a group at the MIT Consortium that is working on an "Ada Language Interface" to things like Xlib and Xt? I know that there exist various "skins" that allow Ada programs to access a large fraction of the existing C Language Interface as a foreign interface. What I'm looking for is a group that is working on a real-live "native" Ada Language Interface. I would classify things like DEC's Ada binding and SAIC's Ada binding as an "Ada Interface to the C Language Interface". They are written in terms of types with C semantics which are not directly accessable to the Ada programs and they generally have C'ish characteristics. They also all have the unfortunate characteristic that portions of the interface aren't covered by the skin. Typically this portion deals with the resource manager and procedure-variables or callbacks. Does there exist a group working on a straight "Ada Language Interface"? Their work would presumably result in an Ada implementation of Xlib and an implementation of Xt that allowed Ada programmers to create new widgets entirely in Ada without having to mix the modules and runtimes of Ada and C. Anyone working on this? Anyone want to work on this? Gary E. Barnes geb@Rational.com
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (03/01/90)
Is there a group at the MIT Consortium that is working on an "Ada Language
Interface" to things like Xlib and Xt?
Basically, no. The interest level within the Consortium has been fairly low,
and the availability of people resources has been pretty much nil.