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: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Theodore E. Dennison" Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/19 Message-ID: <31EF7D90.41C67EA6@escmail.orl.mmc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168866070 references: <31e02c32.342948604@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4rr961$hdk@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be> <31e180c5.430136383@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4s4adc$l4a@ecuador.it.earthlink.net> <31EA0B65.3EF8@wgs.estec.esa.nl> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Information Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Date: 1996-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Sandy McPherson wrote: > > It depends upon which type of large system you wish to implement. Ever > tried to write an operating system, or a configurable toolkit, which needs > to use callbacks, in Ada? Yeuch!!! A Motif based GUI? Head for the hills! > In these areas C or C++ wins every time. Whether this is a problem of Ada I have done a couple Motif based GUI's in Ada. It wasn't tough at all, and ended up being WAY more reliable than a C equivalent. Plus, Ada's tasking allows your program to easily do other things besides just being a slave to the GUI. Ada would be my FIRST choice for implementing Motif GUIs. (And I wasn't that near the hills at the time). -- T.E.D. | Work - mailto:dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com | | Home - mailto:dennison@iag.net | | URL - http://www.iag.net/~dennison |