Re: Random suggestion about the Ada API

[Patrick]

On 09/06/2016 06:48 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 09:40:00PM -0400, Patrick wrote:
> > 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?
> I don't get a lot of comments about the Ada API (it would be nice to
> update it to use the Ada 2005 features for locale support, to provide
> wide-characters).  Ditto for the C++ binding.

Hi Thomas

I have had a love/hate relationship with Ada and it's settling into like 
but not love.

I like the idea of using Ada and ncurses together but is it fair to say 
that there isn't a very large Ada-ncurses following and not much in the 
way of examples.

If you felt it was a good idea I could try to switch all the Ada 
identifiers to their C counterparts? I have many other promises to keep 
first but I could get this done in the next 3-6 months.

Ada programmers could read the C documentation instead of the Ada one. 
Ada programmers could look at the C examples instead and write their own 
programs from looking at the C ones, without having to cross reference 
the different Ada API to match the C calls.

If someone is going to try and use Ada ncurses they are going to have 
some kind of C background already.

Thanks again for all your hard work and happy new year! -Patrick