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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-11 15:28:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!cox.net!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CB60E57.9090306@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <3CB516E1.9030008@snafu.de> <3CB583D6.9000104@worldnet.att.net> <4519e058.0204111009.609078dc@posting.google.com> <3CB5D550.4000201@snafu.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 22:26:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1018563999 68.12.51.201 (Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:26:39 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:26:39 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22392 Date: 2002-04-11T22:26:39+00:00 List-Id: Michael Erdmann wrote: > Ted Dennison wrote: > >> Java's Swing is another good example of this. AWT was found inadaquate >> as a GUI toolkit, so they just kept it and started over from scratch >> with Swing. But lots of old code uses AWT, so it can't go away. > But is there any move in the Ada communitiy to standarize something > in the GUI domain? Well..er..the Swing/AWT thing is actually *also* my archtypeal example of why its silly to even try to make a "standard" GUI. The argument surrounding it usually has to do with it being impossible to do everything everyone (or even a majority of everyone) wants to do with a GUI.