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From: wpritche@osf1.gmu.edu (William W Pritchett)
Subject: Re: Ada Foundation Classes
Date: 1996/07/31
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Chad Bremmon (chad.bremmon@comm.hq.af.mil) wrote:

[snip]

: 1.  What do you need from foundation classes.  
: Consider the microsoft foundation classes.  But, 
: consider that they need to be portable.  Consider 
: the Java API's.  What if they were implemented on 
: every platform.  Consider "automatic" object 
: distribution.  Consider having CORBA written into 
: the language.  With a specification in the front 
: that would allow the implementation to change over 
: time.  

I personally wouldn't mind seeing the java API implemented in Ada.  
I would love to be able to have compiled versions of my AppletMagic apps. I'm 
finding the interpreted apps are not as fast as I'd like them to be.

Bill Pritchett
DCS Corporation