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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:42:00 +0100
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J-P. Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote:
> Le 10/08/2017 à 16:41, Lucretia a écrit :
>> I've seen people look at the language because it seemed interesting
>> to them, then ask, "Does Ada have a GUI lib?" or "Does Ada have
>> OpenGL?" or "Does Ada have DirectX?" etc. When they are told no, they
>> leave never to return, because this is what they want in a language's
>> runtime.
> 
> Why in the world would you answer "No" ? Here is how I deal with these
> questions:

I ever said I said no. But the other answers people have given are as
follows:

> 
> "Does Ada have a GUI lib?"
> Sure, like other languages, we have interfaces to GTK, QT, Tcl/TK, Lua,
> Python...

GTK - horrible API
Qt - preprocessor 
Tcl/Tk - ancient
Lia and Python are not gui's

> "Does Ada have OpenGL?"
> Yes, see adaopengl on SourceForge

Only supports 2.1 and is dead

> "Does Ada have DirectX?"
> Yes, see DirectX binding to Ada on SourceForge
>

No idea on that one?

> etc...
> 

Etc