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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: A well thought of language
Date: 1998/10/22
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In article <70ltmn$r39$1@jupiter.cs.uml.edu>,
  dramirez@cs.uml.edu (Dr Amirez) wrote:
>
>
> When do I get gEt_mOuSe_Xy(). Every computer I touch these days
> has a mouse. If Ada provides gEt_CHar_ImMeDiate() then it should
> have get_mOUse_XY(). Such a great language. C/C++ don't even assume

As soon as you write it! :-)

The vxWorks real-time platform I'm developing for doesn't support a mouse. Few
embedded platforms do either. Given the large amount of embedded work going on
in Ada, mouse support clearly is not appropriate for the core language.

A good GUI *annex* would have been a nifty idea. But I suspect it would have
delayed the Ada 95 standard quite a bit, and probably would have been even
less supported by vendors than the Distributed Systems annex. Plus it'd be
hopelessly obsolete within 10 years. (Anyone remember "Turtle Graphics"?)

--
T.E.D.

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