Re: More about Ada as a programming language

[tmoran@bix.com]

In <31919b09.38647862@news.saipan.com> G]_KRMdq asked:
> what platform will Ada program run on? Does it do multimedia, graphics, etc?
  You can, of course, read from CDROMs, draw graphics, input/output
with sound cards, etc, just as well with Ada as anything else.  A few
years ago I did a videotape editor on a PC, using RR's compiler.  It
used TV frame capture and sound cards, as well as a true GUI (user
interacted with two TV monitors, remote controls, and yellow note pads
shown on the computer's screen or on a TV set).  Ada is particularly
good at timing (you can program in terms of seconds, rather than
'clock ticks').  You can use separate Ada tasks to concentrate on
video, sound, VCR control, etc, rather than juggling complex sets of
call-back routines.  I ported the 'edit' part of that system to the
Macintosh using Meridian's Ada compiler.