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From: "Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com>
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Subject: Re: Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community
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"Michael Erdmann" <Michael.Erdmann@snafu.de> wrote:

> Marin David Condic wrote:

> > but for something like - say - a GUI would be *waaayy* much bigger
> > and would hence meet resistance from the vendors. (Do you really think
> > they're just chomping at the bit to rush out and spend millions just to get
> > themselves compliant with the next Ada standard? ;-)

> I gues GUI's was not a good idea, only resonable small building
> blocks should be standarized. I think nobody would attempt to
> stndarize a complete car!

Ummm, but arguably Java's fairly instant success was exactly due to
coming with the GUI built in, so that GUIed applets started popping up
all over the Web, evangelizing Java without extra effort by Sun.

I suspect that a standard GUI is high on the list of what is needed to
make Ada more popular, and luckily, Ada to Java compilation provides
that pretty much for free already.  Is it being used?

xanthian.


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