Re: Ada95 Streams Question

["Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>]

michael@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de wrote:
> 
> the user provided procedures to describe the vehicle model. When you are
> working with a model this "brain" has to be recompiled and relinked several
> times and this process is controlled by the "pretty face". According to
> this setup it obviously makes sense to keep these two parts separate and not
> link them into one big executable. But, when the "brain" is working it has to

This screams UIL (Motif) to me.

> The two processes are connected with each other via files and pipes and it
> would now be very elegant to use streams to read and write the data. I always
> thought that this is exactly what streams are made for.
> 
> A further advantage of this separation is that you can run the "brain" on
> another computer, maybe a high performance server. This kind of distribution
> seems to be quite natural to me but I sometimes have the feeling that the Ada
> community has not yet understood the benefits of distribution and client server
> computing.

A X-windows server does exactly this (in a more portable manner).

All of this sounds to me like you are using a lot of work to re-invent 
X-Windows and Motif. If you have a UNIX box, these both probably came with
it. If you don't have a UNIX platform, I'll bet there is a commercially
available version of X and Motif for your platform.

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