From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2cfb9497fbc094e5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-06 15:31:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!204.127.161.2.MISMATCH!wn2feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey Creem" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Recommendations:GIS program in Ada X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: <11ae9.164300$kp.766120@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.31.5.146 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net 1031351485 66.31.5.146 (Fri, 06 Sep 2002 22:31:25 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 22:31:25 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 22:31:25 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28764 Date: 2002-09-06T22:31:25+00:00 List-Id: "Bill Tate" wrote in message news:cb4ba455.0209060509.3c27cb7e@posting.google.com... > "Eric G. Miller" wrote in message > > > Why would you care if the software was written in Ada? It's not likely > > any of the vendors would give you access to their source anyway. > > No but they do often have api's however, and their api's are written > for VB, C++, C or other languages that support MS COM (ugh). And I > happen to like Ada :>) > Umm... Ada supports MS COM just fine (www.adapower.com/com) I've used that to interface to other tools such as Rational ClearQuest....