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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: A community Windows binding
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>that you are all missing the point.  You want a GUI interface to
>Ada.  So the first thing to define is that interface.  What OS it
>runs on is immaterial.
  Wants may have changed, but the abstract of the original TriAda
paper on Claw began:  "Ada 95 provides new tools to support a
compiler independent binding that is 1) friendly to Ada programmers,
2) raises the abstraction level, 3) allows resulting applications
that have the look and feel of the Windows applications familiar to
the end user."