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: 2002-04-17 05:41:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!peer.news.eu-x.com!server2.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:11:22 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3CBD666A.11D72C51@brighton.ac.uk> References: <5sZu8.4169$UC5.2312097031@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> <3CBCED28.97960384@adaworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1019045546 15585 193.62.183.204 (17 Apr 2002 12:12:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Apr 2002 12:12:26 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22648 Date: 2002-04-17T12:12:26+00:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > > 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. You are exactly correct -- I wanted something simple enough for total beginners to use, which made it justifiable (IMHO) to sacrifice completeness and flexibility in favour of simplicity. > 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. . That would be nice -- any takers? :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------