Re: Reasons NOT To Choose Ada

[bjw@mirage.iassf.easams.com.au (Brendan WALKER)]

In article <32872161.19FE@eurocontrol.fr>,
Steve Jones - JON  <Steve.Jones@eurocontrol.fr> wrote:
>Michiel Perdeck wrote:
>> 
>> I can think of some reasons, can you refute them?

[snip]

>> 4. Ada is not right for GUI programming.
>This just isn't right, the project I'm on at the moment has zero lines
>of C code in it, uses Ada bindings for PEX and X and gets along just as
>well as the last project where we used C for the GUI.  The only problem
>is that the bindings aren't as powerful as they could be.  You just have
>to be smarter.

Yes but how many of the numerous inexpensive and effective GUI
development tools generate Ada code automatically? The answer is hardly
any and the ones that do are *very* expensive and often not as good.
OK, if you want to write X-windows based GUI's from scratch all the
time use Ada with X bindings (Yuk!), fine. But the smart players use
tools to generate the majority of their GUI code automatically, and this
pushes them towards C++, particularily if they are using an OOD paradigm
for their overall system design.

Regards,


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