Re: GUI was Re: why Ada is so unpopular ?

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

That's why the goal would ultimately have to be to produce a unique "Ada 
Application Environment", if you will. The app would see things like a 
GUI or network or file system or registry as objects it could use & 
manipulate through regular Ada mechanisms. If it maps to an underlying 
OS feature, you use that. If not, there would have to be some 
stand-alone "fake it out" underlying implementation that is part of the 
library.

You couldn't get there overnight and you'd want to start with "least 
common denominator" features, but I think you could get there. This is 
why I've argued for a "Conventional" library that is maintained as a 
reference implementation and blessed by the Powers That Be. You'd have 
to keep growing those features over time & issuing releases faster than 
once every ten years. That's why you couldn't keep it as part of the ARM 
- but it could be maintained as something less formal.

MDC


tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>   Claw.Registry, OTOH, would be bizarre to try to port to an OS with
> nothing similar to Windows Registry.


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