From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Lack of Ada Windows books (was: how to make Ada more popular?
Date: 1999/01/24
Date: 1999-01-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1999Jan23.194101.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36a938da.0@news.pacifier.com
In article <36a938da.0@news.pacifier.com>, "Steve Doiel" <nospam_steved@pacifier.com> writes:
> Does an Ada development system for Windows NT exist that lets me do
> all of my development in Ada? When I have to read samples of C/C++ code
> in order to make Windows API calls, and spend a considerable amount of
> time fiddling with using the "bindings", I don't feel like I'm programming
> in
> Ada. It is these times that I think about how life would be easier if I
> were
> programming in C/C++. When I try to convince someone that Ada is a
> good choice, this is a problem area. We need an up to date binding that
> gives the user the impression Ada is natural with the Windows API.
Some of the bindings issues are due to the system calls being
Microsoft intellectual property, but I believe a major piece
lacking is complete books on how to program against Windows NT
in Ada. There are _many_ competing offerings in C/C++ terms,
and _many_ in Delphi terms, but none for Ada. The typical
answer from Ada vendors seems to be "everybody knows C --
read a C book and translate in your head. This is _not_enough_.
Of course you don't have to be a compiler vendor to write a
great book in this area. Perhaps there are one or more being
written as we quibble.
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-21 0:00 how to make Ada more popular? bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
1999-01-21 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-23 0:00 ` micro_ada
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-24 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-01-25 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-01-27 0:00 ` kna
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-25 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-30 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Making ADA More Popular Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-01-27 0:00 ` joel
1999-01-28 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` how to make Ada more popular? Donald Duck
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
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