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From: "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Announce: JEWL
Date: 2000/04/14
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John English a �crit dans le message <38F35567.89A360DF@brighton.ac.uk>...
>JEWL (John English's Window Library) is a set of Ada packages
>designed to enable novices to develop GUI-based applications for
>MS Windows. Students are often frustrated by the fact that the Ada
>standard libraries only provide text-based I/O facilities; they
>want to develop modern-looking programs with a GUI, and complain
>about learning Ada rather than VB or Java as a result. JEWL is
>intended as a remedy for this.


Very nice work here. This is definitly what student want. I've always
had comment like: "Well in VB I can do very easily simple GUI how to
do that in Ada"... And from there you see my answer "Well, that is
not easy and we wont have time to explore this..."

Pascal.

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