Re: Ada takes control of Internet Explorer

["David Botton" <David@Botton.com>]

Brian Rogoff wrote in message ...
>I think the fact that GTK is written in C is not really relevant.

It is to me, I am not eager to partner my Ada code with the villan :-)

> It seems
>to be a decent windows toolkit and the Ada binding is not too bad either.

I have only played around a little with it, but the key here is I want to
think in Ada not just write Ada code.

C style frameworks are just C code in Ada clothing.

>Rather than go off starting projects that have little hope of ever
>succeeding it makes more sense to tackle some smaller Ada projects which
>have a greater reward to work ratio.

I have always found the important part is where you heart is, sort of like
art. Success and reward are different for each of us.

As far as the reward and success of the Ada community is concerned, a
person's passion to produce open source code and knowledge will inspire
others in the community and it matters not what project they choose, just
that they do it.

I always hope that AdaPower for example will inspire others to produce
reusable Ada code and to share knowledge, but the reason I created it was
for my personal use. I don't know how many people use AdaPower as a regular
resource, but I certainly do.

> Since GTK has a lot of momentum, I'd
>think something like a RAPID/GTK-Ada port (which appears to be in the
>works!) would be useful. Your "all Ada" framework would talk to a C
>windowing API at some level, right?


On some platforms. On the JVM, it is Java, and one day perhaps on an AdaOS,
with Ada. I even had an offer from some one to work on porting the framework
to use GTK :-)

>Another useful tool would be something like Python's os module, to make
>portable access to a hierarchical file system in Ada easier.

Maybe I'll do it one day in the future if some one else, perhaps yourself,
doesn't do it first.

David Botton