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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GUI for Ada (GPS with GtkAda or GtkGlade GUI Builder) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:42:47 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <1mbqd8bcxlrok$.1hg7u98k9zcqw$.dlg@40tude.net> References: <84ecbeb2-095a-4067-a05e-e86ac86d8597@googlegroups.com> <8235925f-3299-48fb-abfe-67b77515e5de@googlegroups.com> <79oew82p4v6b$.hkifjb8uma0z$.dlg@40tude.net> <4a4b82b9-f0a2-48af-9da6-255dfaeeaf6f@googlegroups.com> <13h77fkwqywwh$.1h9cf6ytit6ew$.dlg@40tude.net> <095b91f7-2485-4093-b378-6a3a79a0f864@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: enOx0b+nfqkc2k+TNpOejg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:27441 Date: 2015-08-13T15:42:47+02:00 List-Id: On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 05:56:20 -0700 (PDT), sjaniska@gmail.com wrote: >> It is one of [lack of] education that leads people to develop GTK or Qt in >> the languages like C and C++. If you looked at GtkAda and compared it to >> the native C API you would immediately see how much safer GtkAda is. > > So, in general, your advice is to (always) provide (in type-safe language) > thick GUI bindings for toolkit like GTk/Qt, right? Yes, thin bindings are pretty much nuisance. Not only for GUI, when designing a DB bindings Connection, Statement, Cursor etc are made controlled, safely closed when out of scope etc. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de