From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: What is Ada used for???
Date: 1996/10/09
Date: 1996-10-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53hqn7$eki@felix.seas.gwu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AE817A13-1E0BE@206.107.67.30
In article <AE817A13-1E0BE@206.107.67.30>,
Sean Roehnelt <roehnelt@csulb.edu> wrote:
>Can I use Ada to make application for Windows, MocOS, OS2, UNIX, BeOS,
>etc...?
With the exception of BeOS, the answer is yes, indeed. No Ada yet for
BeOS.
>Does GUI bring up a whole other issue that ties me to a language?
Not really. It is quite easy to call GUI tools from Ada 95 programs.
The various compilers for those systems you named all come with
"bindings" to the respective GUI toolboxes. An Ada binding is a set of
interfaces that let you call those GUI routines from Ada, whatever
the GUI was originally written in.
>
>Is the programming language I program in independent of what programs can
>be used for? Does it depend on my development package?
Not really. Most current languages are fully general purpose. In a sense,
the application depends on the development package. If you need, for
example, a Windows 95 GUI library, you won't usually find it on UN*X.
Other than that dependency on platform-specific libraries, just about
anything can be written in just about any language.
Most of us on this group just think it's likely to be easier and
more reliable with Ada.:-)
>
>Like I said I'm just getting started with programming,
Welcome aboard! You're just like most of my own students... and yes,
they start off with Ada, too.
>
>sean
>
Mike Feldman
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-09 0:00 What is Ada used for??? Sean Roehnelt
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Jason Smith
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Richard Riehle
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22 0:00 ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada Stanley R. Allen
1996-10-24 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Andrew Dunstan
1996-10-25 0:00 ` John DiCamillo
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Poutanen Olavi
1996-10-25 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Thomas Kendelbacher
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-28 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Rush Kester
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1996-10-30 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Poutanen Olavi
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Kazimir Majorinc
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
[not found] ` <AE817A13-1E0BE@206.107.67.30>
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman [this message]
1996-10-21 0:00 ` What is Ada used for??? Jin Xue Kuang
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Arlene S. Felton
1996-11-04 0:00 ` nasser
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