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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 20:34:01 -0700
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tmoran@acm.org wrote:

> But multiple people have spent a lot of time creating alternative
> Windows bindings.  Not that those aren't good, especially when, as in
> JEWL, they address a special audience, but it does mean that someone who
> wants a midi interface does not find it on the shelf, and goes looking
> instead to C++.  (Presumably after checking out gnatcom)

Actually, the mention of JEWL is appropriate.   John English is to be
commended for designing a package specification that is wonderfully
accessible to the novice Windows programmer using Ada.  However,
John would probably be the first to agree that JEWL is not intended
for the kind of robust applications one can create with CLAW.  He
never intended it to compete with CLAW, if I understand him correctly.

I wonder whether someone might take the JEWL and JEWL.Windows
package specifications and implement them with CLAW.   The
benefit would be that one would have the simplicity of the JEWL
specification for beginner programmers along with the full
power of CLAW when one needed to do more than JEWL offers.  .

Richard Riehle