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"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:
> On 3/4/2011 11:15 PM, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>> After all, there's GtkAda, that's probably as cross-platform as it will
>> ever get and yet it doesn't convince users to use Ada.
>
> Other than GPS and the work by Dmitry and few others using GTK here,
> where are the Ada GUI apps written using GTK Ada?

There's a *big* one (mission-critical, 1.5 million SLOC) where I work et
Eurocontrol.  Philippe Waroquiers wrote a paper about it at SIGAda 2003.

> So, something is wrong here in this picture. In other systems, I can
> go to Google and search and find tens of thousands of GUI apps written
> by other languages.

I think this something is simply that too few people use Ada.  Nothing
new here.

> may be I will be the first who will use Ada with GTK and Plplot to
> make a complete scientific Ada GUI application, and I will become very
> famous :)

Way to go.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.