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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Genealogy Software then slightly [OFF TOPIC]
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"Larry Hazel" <lhhazel@otelco.net> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know of any genealogy software written in Ada?  With source
> available?  I thought I might attempt to write some.  Any suggestions for
data
> representation will be appreciated.  I haven't done much Ada 95, but a lot
of
> Ada 83.  Will need some way to represent dates going back hundreds of
years
> (maybe just a fixed length string since some of them will be of the form
"ca.
> 1784").  Will need a person object (maybe abstract with separate child
types for
> male and female).  Will link to other person objects which represent
spouses,
> children, and probably backward to parents.  An event object (marriage,
birth,
> death, buying or selling property, ...).  Bibliographical text will also
be
> needed.  Storage of scanned pictures and documents.
>
> Maybe this is too complicated for a 1 man home project.

It seems from the responses that the requirements analysis isn't finished
yet - perhaps you should try comp.lang.UML (doesn't exist! why????) first
and
then code it up in Ada! ;-)

Has anyone tried the Ada Code Generator that comes with the freeware UML
tool from Pragsoft? www.pragsoft.com

I'm not advocating it or the UML part is good, but it can be run in a
freeware
mode and does come with (allegedly) a host of code generators...