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: 103376,714a8558b02b32bb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-21 05:01:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <400E7811.30002@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GUI was Re: why Ada is so unpopular ? References: <100r17jsabt5a3a@corp.supernews.com> <2ZfPb.89638$Rc4.463959@attbi_s54> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:01:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.24.48 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1074690065 209.165.24.48 (Wed, 21 Jan 2004 05:01:05 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 05:01:05 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4600 Date: 2004-01-21T13:01:05+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================