From: jmatthews@nova.wright.edu (Dr. John B. Matthews)
Subject: Re: Better MacOS Handles through Ada (was: Implementing Pointers to Pointe
Date: 1996/09/14
Date: 1996-09-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1996Sep14.150138@nova.wright.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1996Sep13.080055.1@eisner
In article <1996Sep13.080055.1@eisner>, kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> In article <1996Sep12.144206@nova.wright.edu>, jmatthews@nova.wright.edu (Dr. John B. Matthews) writes:
>> [...]
>> The ObjectHdl.all.all syntax looks strange at first, but MacOS
>> programmers at a recent trade show seemed to have no trouble
>> following the sample code we showed them.
>
> Although I was at what was probably the trade show to which you
> allude, I did not discuss that aspect of Ada bindings with you.
> I would maintain, however, that that construct is quite obvious
> to anyone who has had to struggle with MacOS programming in any
> other language.
It was a pleasure to have met you at the show! That particualr
construct, ObjectHdl.all.all, doesn't appear in any of my sample
code; it was just something I recall trying while tinkering with the
compiler & bindings.
> [...]
> I do not mean to suggest that what has been done to date is
> improper -- certainly allowing MacOS programmers to emulate
> their activities in previous languages is a good start, but
> Ada has the capability to provide something better, hiding
> some really arcane OS behaviour from programmers who have
> more interest in correctness and productivity than winning
> a MacOS trivia contest.
I agree. I was particularly intrigued by the potential for tools
like AppMaker (a GUI-oriented, multi-language code generator from
Bowers Development) to be adapted to Ada. Another approach would be
a class library. I'd heard of an effort along this line, but never
tracked it down. Anybody?
John
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"Whom the gods would destroy, they first invite to program in C"
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-09 0:00 Implementing pointers to pointers in Ada Vasilios Tourloupis
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-09-09 0:00 ` John Herro
1996-09-10 0:00 ` David Shochat
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Dr. John B. Matthews
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Better MacOS Handles through Ada (was: Implementing Pointers to Pointe Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-14 0:00 ` Dr. John B. Matthews [this message]
1996-09-15 0:00 ` GUI Generators and Class Libraries (was: Better MacOS Handles Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-15 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-17 0:00 ` GUI Generators and Class Libraries (wa David Kristola
1996-09-17 0:00 ` GUI Generators and Class Libraries Dr. John B. Matthews
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Implementing pointers to pointers in Ada Jonas Nygren
1996-09-10 0:00 ` John Demby
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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