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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..
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kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline) wrote in message news:<ba162549.0301030124.237c7a7e@posting.google.com>...
> Not all the antipathy to Ada is irrational.  Most of it comes
> from sad experience.  Mine was trying to use Ada-83 to write Unix 
> applications with a Motif UI.  Regardless of any superiority in
> reliability, the scarcity of libraries and trained
> programmers makes Ada too expensive for most commercial software
> projects.


Odd. That's one of the few domains where Ada (even 83) is almost
ideal. I've done just that myself, and you can actually do Motif UI's
in Ada way quicker than you can in C (counting debugging), even if you
have *no* bindings to start with. UIL can do all the GUI work, and the
Ada "glue" code only needs a few UIL, Motif, and X routines bound (3
to load and paste the UI, plus one for any widget class you interact
with, if I remember correctly). The profusion of UIL GUI builders out
there pretty handily negates Ada's usual disadvantages with library
support.