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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