From: "Kees Serier" <K.Serier@cadans.nl>
Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular?
Date: 1999/01/22
Date: 1999-01-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <789kei$mbd$1@news.Kijfhoek.NL.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com
bill_1@nospam.com wrote in message <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com>...
>
>lets face it. Ada is not used much in commerical sector.
>
>What can be done to improve the situation?
>
>A very busy area these days is software development in the internet:
>Web servers and Application servers. These type of applications
>are very large and complex and muli-tasking as a general rule, although
>some web servers do not use tasks (threads) yet (such as Apache for
example).
What else is popular?
Programming Windows (mainly MS-Windows) I think.
What is used for this task?
C++, Delphi, Virtual Basic
What do they have that GNAT does not have?
Class libraries and tools for making programming Windows easy.
There are some commercial Ada compilers that also have these tools, and also
provide those
for use with GNAT, but those are not free and will therefor not lead to the
wanted popularity
(allthough they probably will be of high quality).
So in my opinion, a well designed and documented object oriented gui
library, not too big and
easy to learn, free and with source, would increase Ada's popularity.
If this gui library would also be designed with portability in mind, so that
the same source can
be compiled on different platforms (MS-W, UNIX with X, Mac, OS/2 etc).
An example of such a library for C++ is "V" (see www.objectcentral.com)
which also is available for the MINGW port of gcc/egcc.
Kees Serier
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-21 0:00 how to make Ada more popular? bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-23 0:00 ` micro_ada
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-24 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Kees Serier [this message]
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-25 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-30 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-01-27 0:00 ` kna
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Lack of Ada Windows books (was: " Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Making ADA More Popular Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-01-27 0:00 ` joel
1999-01-28 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` how to make Ada more popular? Donald Duck
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
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