From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Learning Windows 95 programming with Ada?
Date: 1997/12/01
Date: 1997-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1997Dec1.103917.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3481d496.2503720@news.tiac.net
In article <3481d496.2503720@news.tiac.net>, ichbiah@twsolutions.com (Jean Ichbiah) writes:
> The trouble is that hardly anybody develops applications
> at this level. Most Windows programming is done with
> visual programming which is not addressed by these
> bindings. Then, of the tools available, Delphi is certainly
> the closest to the Ada philosophy. (It would have been
> a complete profanity to suggest Visual C++ or Visual Basic.)
Although thick-binding approaches are easier when adequate,
there seems to be quite a market for thin-binding approaches
based on the number of C-centric books which attempt to explain
the Windows programming environment at the low level.
Use of thin bindings often come up when thick bindings are not
adequate. I think the original question points up a significant
lack in available Ada books -- one cannot learn the details of
the Microsoft APIs without knowing C.
Larry Kilgallen
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1997-11-29 0:00 Learning Windows 95 programming with Ada? Mike Willour
1997-11-29 0:00 ` Jean Ichbiah
1997-11-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-30 0:00 ` Jean Ichbiah
1997-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1997-11-30 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-12-01 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
[not found] ` <34833E36.5C47@easystreet.com>
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
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1998-02-07 0:00 tmoran
1998-02-07 0:00 tmoran
1998-02-05 0:00 Tom Moran
1998-02-06 0:00 ` nabbasi
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1997-12-03 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Jon Jensen
1997-12-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-12-05 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-12-05 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Richard Toy
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-12-05 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-02 0:00 tmoran
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-30 0:00 tmoran
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-11-29 0:00 Mike Willour
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