Re: Newbie: display control

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier)]

svaa:

>   Is there any library to control display cursor etc, that has become
> an standard "de facto" in Ada 95?.
> 
> I'm a newbie in Ada, but I think it's strange that Ada RM, that covers
> a lot of stuff, doesn't have a screen/cursor/keyboard standard spec.
> the user interface in Ada 95 is sad (well, I would say missing).
> 
> I know there are a lot of terminals, and depends a lot upon hardware.
> But the first Ada was born in 1983, not in 1960, terminals were then
> an important part of computers world. I don't mean Ada should have a
> full GUI, but at least a "clear screen", and "set cursor position"
> procedure. Or was the main goal of Ada embedded systems?

The designers of Ada have always been very careful not hooking the
language into a specific system (for Ada83 even too minimalist, e.g.
the missing math libraries). You terminal issue is a good example
of the pertinence of this carefulness: in 1983 the terminals had
perhaps the "set cursor position" feature, but a normal command
line window in 2003 provide basically not more functionality than
what you find in Ada.Text_IO.
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