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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3db17e1869f3a33d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Theodore E. Dennison" Subject: Re: Ada95 Streams Question Date: 1996/06/25 Message-ID: <31CFD8F7.59E2B600@escmail.orl.mmc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 162059277 references: <9606232338.AA12517@nile.gnat.com> <4qlshm$1j9e@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Information Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Date: 1996-06-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- T.E.D. | Work - mailto:dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com | | Home - mailto:dennison@iag.net | | URL - http://www.iag.net/~dennison |