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From: Cesar Rabak <crabak@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Latest GNAT version -- an afterthought for the "Ada
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:13:53 -0300
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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