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From: Paul Whittington <paul@grep.net>
Subject: Re: Choose Ada flyer
Date: 1998/12/14
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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.