From: Cesar Rabak <crabak@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Latest GNAT version -- an afterthought for the "Ada Popularity..." thread
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:13:53 -0300
Date: 2004-08-31T23:13:53-03:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41353061.7070608@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ubrgrkxed.fsf@act-europe.fr
Pascal Obry escreveu:
> Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
>
>
>>It occurs to me that if GPS were written in C++ and had these kinds
>>of problems, you guys would eat it alive.
>
>
> And that's almost the case :) GPS is based on GtkAda, which is based on GTK+
> which is written in C++! And yes most of the problems come from this layer (at
> least on Windows)... Font problems is one example.
>
Perhaps this is a fine example of another hidden factor in the less than
expected popularity of Ada: when using the language in hosted
environments, and in this case with foreing (non Ada) frameworks, the
incremental robustness of Ada is pratically not seen. . .
--
Cesar Rabak
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-30 19:21 Latest GNAT version John Zouck
2004-08-30 20:49 ` Björn Persson
2004-08-30 21:28 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-08-30 23:17 ` Florian Weimer
2004-08-31 13:18 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-08-31 17:52 ` Pascal Obry
2004-08-31 22:52 ` Jeff C,
2004-09-01 2:13 ` Cesar Rabak [this message]
2004-09-06 3:52 ` Pylinius
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