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From: jmarten@ibm.net (Jean-Marten Marchi)
Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ?
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On Sun, 09 May 1999 18:32:12 GMT, pmartin@mail.earthlink.net (Pascal
F. Martin) wrote:

>BTW, Ada is very poor when it comes to user interfaces tools:


I disagree ; Ada95 has solved problems that Ada83 had with GUIs,
particularly with the fact that your application is called by the
system and not the contrary as it is the case with system programming.
As far as you have the binding you can do what you want. I have even
built a very thin binding for OS/2 PM ! 

>either you redo it yourself (hardware dependencies ?) or you use
>bindings for a specific OS (or OS family).

Most often, GUIs are tied to an OS, but nothing prevents a GUI to run
on multiple OS's. In this case what you need is a binding to a GUI.

> At least Java is trying to solve this issue.
Happily, Ada doesn't try to solve any issue around GUI, nor file
system or communication protocols.
1) it gives you choice,
2) the best GUI is not invented yet,

Ada95 designers concentrated on computer language issues and they did
well. Other  issues like concurrency or distributed computing have
been put in annexes. For what i know, it was not the designers goal to
build a Corba or anything like that.