From: Paul Whittington <paul@grep.net>
Subject: Re: Choose Ada flyer
Date: 1998/12/14
Date: 1998-12-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36759F4A.20D3C90C@grep.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: F3z87p.Czo.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com
I don't know exactly what the purpose of this material is, but it leaves
me with the impression that Ada is the right choice for large or safety
critical applications.
It seems to me that the majority of software being written today falls
into the non-safety critical category, and the sponsors/developers do
not identify what they're doing as a "large" project.
IMHO, any software worth writing is large enough to warrant the use of
Ada.
What I would want to know is
- Is there an Ada Delphi or Visual Basic like environment that supports
the development of desktop GUI MIS-type applications? Does it support
a platform portable GUI like Tcl/Tk or JFC?
- Are there Ada based tools that support enterprise level development?
CORBA, COM, DCOM, application servers, SQL database servers, LDAP,
and legacy system integration?
- What about WWW deployment? Do tools exist to support the development
of thin client network applications implemented as WWW server
extensions? What platforms and servers?
- Do these tools come with batteries included, or do I have to have
gurus on my team to integrate all sorts of technologies together to
get a useful development tool set?
- How about third-party component/tools/utilities vendors? Where do I
go when I need to add fax, paging or report generation capabilities
to my application?
- How many vendors are there for these kinds of tools, and are they
likely to be around in five years?
Help me out here folks. I love Ada. From a language viewpoint there's
no better language than Ada. From a compiler/IDE, third-party support,
vendor stability viewpoint I CAN'T CHOOSE Ada!
The closest thing I've found is Delphi.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-14 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-14 0:00 Choose Ada flyer Tucker Taft
1998-12-14 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-12-14 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-14 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-12-14 0:00 ` Paul Whittington [this message]
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-14 0:00 ` Paul Whittington
1998-12-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Rapid Ada (was Re: Choose Ada flyer) David Botton
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Choose Ada flyer Lowe Anthony A
1998-12-17 0:00 ` Brian Bell
1999-01-18 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-19 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-01-20 0:00 ` Choose Ada flyer (and future of ADA) news.oxy.com
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
[not found] ` <01be47f7$a9740600$0a18b70a@DBHP>
1999-01-28 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-20 0:00 ` Choose Ada flyer robert_dewar
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-01-21 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Dirk Craeynest
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Tom Moran
[not found] <36771d4c.2157661@news.geccs.gecm.com>
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-16 0:00 ` Magnus Kempe
1998-12-16 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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