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From: "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@der.edf.fr>
Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ?
Date: 1999/05/10
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Pascal F. Martin <pmartin@mail.earthlink.net> a �crit dans le message :
MwkZ2.2415$2j3.3581@clnws01.we.mediaone.net...
> In article <7h399g$4nb@drn.newsguy.com>,
> steve  <steve@newsguy.com> writes:
> >
> > I am finding that Ada is actually more portable than Java.
> > [...]
> > example:
> >
> > http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/cfparse
> >
> > You'll see the platform is windoz. but it is written in Java.
> >  [...]
> > Java portability is a big spam. Ada is much much more portable
> > than Java will ever be.
>
> I would not start a flame war here, but do you know _any_ Ada
> standard for Graphical User Interface ? 8-{
>

No. You are right. But it depends what you are thinking when you say
"standard". Java is not a standard either. But here is not my point. For
graphical stuff we have some very good and fast growing technologies :
Tk/Tcl and GTK both are cross-plateforms are very cost effective
in terms of developpement, are very well designed.

Also, keep in mind that the most important GUI today is the browser !

In this respect Ada is (as all others languages) just fine. In CGI mode
you just have to output some HTML, XML, CSS... infos.

Pascal.