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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1479b753518e2325 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fraser@synopsys.com (Fraser Wilson) Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular? Date: 1999/01/21 Message-ID: <7881vj$cjv$1@remarQ.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 435345741 References: <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com> X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@remarQ.com X-Trace: 916949811 KZBGBQC4S164892E1C usenet52.supernews.com Organization: Vegetarian Ada Programmers Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I nearly cried when bill_1@nospam.com said: >We hear a lot about how great Ada is, and it it is. But there are little >GPL'ed applications in Ada that are large and known. other than GNAT, what >else is there? There's certainly not the wealth of GPL'd apps in Ada that there are in C. But they do exist -- check out the Ada GTK bindings which you can get to via the GTK home page at www.gtk.org (I can't remember offhand the actual address). OK, it's not actually an app, but the difference in writing GTK applications using the Ada bindings is, well, astounding. It feels like the toolkit was written in Ada from scratch (which I haven't found in other X Windows bindings). It's a recurring dream of mine to write and release free Ada software. There's several projects in the pipeline, but for some reason my real job keeps taking up my time. Fraser.