From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID,
	REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,c150afe4948a1601
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Learning Windows 95 programming with Ada?
Date: 1997/12/01
Message-ID: <1997Dec1.103917.1@eisner>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 294228894
References: <65ntdo$8so@news0-alterdial.uu.net>
 <34802dfc.4229989@news.tiac.net> <dewar.880850506@merv>
 <3481d496.2503720@news.tiac.net>
Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org
X-Trace: news.decus.org 880990769 4486 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2]
Organization: LJK Software
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


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