From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11232c,877ba3d67e73c6c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-17 21:42:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.mailgate.org!mygate.mailgate.org!198.207.153.205!not-for-mail From: "Kent Paul Dolan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 04:42:17 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG Message-ID: <75e7bccb730eda7db554601b66ba9814.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <3CB77A6B.5090504@snafu.de> <184076622a7c648f157c56e417bd86d4.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> <3CB9375F.8040904@snafu.de> <3CB9AF3C.8030301@snafu.de> <3CBC5281.1040202@snafu.de> <3CBDAAA9.5050302@snafu.de> <555f76f7dd67c7f1678e027353d1a6a1.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> <3CBDE85F.9ACFD30@san.rr.com> <3CBE0457.6E7B82A8@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.207.153.205 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.mailgate.org 1019077366 32607 198.207.153.205 (Thu Apr 18 06:42:16 2002) X-Complaints-To: abuse@mailgate.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 04:42:17 +0000 (UTC) Injector-Info: news.mailgate.org; posting-host=198.207.153.205; posting-account=48257; posting-date=1019077366 User-Agent: Mailgate Web Server X-URL: http://mygate.mailgate.org/mynews/comp/comp.lang.ada/75e7bccb730eda7db554601b66ba9814.48257%40mygate.mailgate.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22700 misc.misc:6544 Date: 2002-04-18T04:42:17+00:00 List-Id: "Darren New" wrote: > It's very simple to learn, too. Way easier than either Java GUI, and > relatively high-level, but relatively limited due to being high-level > and portable. You don't get 3D, or round windows, or dancing menus with > talking paperclips.... wait a minute... that could be a benefit too! Ummm. Actually then, that could be a problem, since a fraction of Ada use (I have no idea how much) goes into stuff like flight simulators and combat theater simulators. I don't think limited functionality graphics would fly as a standard Ada GUI (though I'm talking way past my knowledge base at this point, so it is time for me to choose this leaf as a point at which to bow out of this bough of this discussion tree, I suspect). xanthian. -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG