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From: cyberlync@yahoo.com (Eric Merritt)
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Subject: Re: Why not combine Ada and C++?
Date: 15 Oct 2001 15:15:00 -0700
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<fr.fabien@infonie.fr> wrote in message news:<01c155a0$7dd31b80$1b7af2c3@akzvbymr>...
> In my opinion, the drama of Ada is that it was not able to get
> out of the DoD or Air traffic control applications
> 
> The reason seems that there were no Ada libraries
> for stuff like GUI and ODBC and that to make a simple
> software you had to code by yourself a lot of stuff
> unlike VB , Java, or C++ where you have huge libraries to
> capitalize on.
> 
> FF

Please feel free to check out GNADE. GNADE is an odbc based library
for ada, a pretty good one too I might add. As for native gui, you are
right. There probably needs to be a native gui toolkit for ada. In the
interim we do have gtkAda that is not bad at all.

Eric