Re: The return of Ada95

[Simon Johnston <skj@ACM.ORG>]

> paul@srv.net (Paul Whittington) wrote:
> > Thanks to DLLs the
> >integration of a system designed this way is a no-brainer.  Build the
> >main program in Delphi 2.0 and have it call the business rule stuff
> >written in Ada implemented as a DLL which in turn calls DLLs written
> >in Delphi 2.0 that provide the backend support.
>
> I am doing some GUI development in Delphi and think that it is a great
> tool for building client/server GUIs.  But, I have been told:
>
> >Tom Griest <griest-tom@CS.YALE.EDU>
> >Right now there are some technical issues relating to generating DLL's
> >with Ada.  There may be a contract to fund a DLL development kit for
> >GNAT/Win32.  If you are interested in "chipping in", let me know.

Can you (Tom) tell us what the technical issues are? having done some
experiments on producing DLL's from GNAT I would be interested in your
opinion (I stopped due to lack of time).

> Since I do have a back end that I would like to use Ada95 for, how are
> you making a DLL.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Mitchell James
> mjames@cyberhighway.net
> http://cyberhighway.net/~mjames/   {check out Ada95 Measurement Types}
>
> (Otto Neugebauer, the historian of ancient mathematics, told a story
> about the boy Einstein that he characterizes as a "legend,")
> As he was a late talker, his parents were worried.  At last, at the
> supper
> table one night, he broke his silence to say, "The soup is too hot."
> Greatly
> relieved, his parents asked why he had never said a word before.
> Albert
> replied, "Because up to now everything was in order."
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>
>

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