Re: Ada 95 S/W Eng

[Scott Ingram` <scott@silver.jhuapl.edu>]

I've managed to attribute comments to Jeff that he could
never have made since he wouldn't know what Ada, XML,
Glade or OpenToken were if he was hit in the head with them:

Ted Dennison wrote:

> In article <3973A59B.75E0FD00@freeoutpost.com>
>   Jeff Parke <webmaster@freeoutpost.com> wrote:
> > It certainly seems to me that "gate" from the GTKAda package could be
> > combined with TED's OpenToken in interesting ways...especially since
> > I have a client clamoring for XML.
>
> There is rudimentary HTML support in OpenToken, thanks to Christ Grein.
> But I'd love to see someone submit good XML support.

Obviously I need to spend some time at home in front of my monitor catching
up on the growing body of libre software that Adaphiles are churning out!

> I've been using GTKAda for the last few days, and I'd really like to see
> something interesting done with XML there too. In particular, I'd like
> to see something similar to Motif's UIL support. I was really
> disappointed in the way Glade spits out tons of files that have to be
> hand-edited (and thus hand-merged when the GUI changes).

I bought a Motif license some time ago but never really had the time
to explore UIL.  What advantages does it offer?

> I should also mention that I've been working on a *new* parsing
> mechanism for OpenToken, which will be released as a beta version
> --
> T.E.D.
>
> http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html

Excellent!