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-Thread: 103376,ffe4fb1477fe67e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!fdn.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail Message-ID: <46409D2A.2090409@obry.net> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 17:54:18 +0200 From: Pascal Obry Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada To: ezkcdude Subject: Re: Newbie Needs Ada Advice References: <1178212418.538270.283700@c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1178635220.859690.3310@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <4640923B.7060409@obry.net> <1178638047.133001.115090@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1178638047.133001.115090@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 08 May 2007 17:54:26 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.124.124.199 X-Trace: 1178639666 news.orange.fr 27384 82.124.124.199:1941 X-Complaints-To: abuse@orange.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15644 Date: 2007-05-08T17:54:26+02:00 List-Id: 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. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595