Random suggestion about the Ada API

[Patrick]

Hi Thomas

In 2012 I printed/bought 53lbs of Ada books. I studied and studied but I 
didn't accomplish much and I moved onto GnuCOBOL in January 2013 and I 
have been very happy with it since.

However I do have a soft spot for Ada and I think it's a great language. 
I was jut thinking about it today and out of the blue I wanted to post 
about it.

While C is dangerous and Ada is safe, C is certainly useful. I think 
snobbery against C and a failure to come to grips with the situation is 
hurting Ada. I haven't looked at the source for some time but I believe 
the Ada ncurses binding was written around or before the US department 
of defence dropped their Ada mandate and interest in Ada took a major hit.

It was a while back when I tried to use the Ada binding but the thing 
that discouraged me was that I could not find any examples on the 
internet of it's use.

Just a suggestion..... have you ever thought about reworking the Ada API 
so that it just pretty much just matched the C one? Is it
possible that there just isn't enough of a following to support a 
separate API?

Just a thought.... I am not trying to criticize in any way, I hope this 
email won't come across that way.

Thanks again for your tireless work with ncurses.

Have a great day-Patrick