Re: GNAT for MS Visual Studio

["William J Thomas" <wjthomas@wcvt.com>]

Thank You,

Unfortunately my worst fears have come true.

No MS Visual Studio GUI building capability.

Tell me is there some secret government agency out there preventing Ada from 
having a good, reliable GUI builder on MS Windows?

I mean Windows is only some 90%+ of the market, so I can't believe that the 
Ada vendors for the last 25+ years have some how... (wait a minute, I know 
most of those vendors so I take that back).

It's just that I've been waiting for over two decades for this dream to come 
true, but it never has!

Please don't send me all sorts of suggestions on all of the wonderful "works 
well on Unix but crashes in 10 minutes on Windows Ada GUI products" out 
there. Actually I've had a few of them lure me in and let me do about a half 
hours worth of work just to dash all my hopes and gobel up all of my work, 
or let me save my work only to never let me back in with my saved files, or 
let me back in and display something not even closley resembling to what I 
last saved.

I paid over $4K in the 1980's for an Alsys 286 Compiler (but hey I did get 
4M of memory with it) , I would gladly pay $8K or $16K today for an Ada 
compiler and GUI builder compariable to the quality of a C# compiler and 
Visual Studio. I guess I'll just have to keep dreaming and keep coding (in 
Ada of course, how else could I afford an $8K compiler).

Bill