Re: Newbie Needs Ada Advice

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

ezkcdude a �crit :

> like something like the GUI builders you can find in NetBeans. Glade
> is similar, but then you have the XML stuff, which seems like even
> more overhead to learn. I noticed that the version of glade bundled

XML is an intermediate representation for the GUI, no need to learn
anything, gate will generate the Ada code for you. You don't even need
to look at the generated XML.

> I really don't want to get into web programming. That would be even
> more languages to learn.

More languages ? AWS/Ajax is mostly Ada. Ajax support is done through
ready-to-use template tags. You'll have at least to know a bit of XML
and XHTML.

> I am not really concerned with looks. Most important are 1)
> functionality 2) performance and 3) ease of programming. Java really
> seems to have the upper hand in #3. Is this not the case?

Yes it *seems* to have... In Java everything *seems* to be easy... then
comes reality :) Java is by far the last technology to use for building
GUI, just look around there is not that much Java GUI applications. Java
is mostly used on the server side for Web developments.

Pascal.

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