Re: GNAT on Win 95

[Bob Crispen <revbob@EIGHT-BALL.HV.BOEING.COM>]

progers@ACM.ORG sez:

>>Interestingly enough, what Lycos actually found for me was a link
>>to a Bob Crispen page thanking Tom Griest for his efforts with this
>>port. That's awfully considerate of you, Bob (although the background
>>with the hearts is most sickening). If I was Tom I'd be quite touched,
>>.....and quite happy that I live over a thousand miles away. :-)
>
>Nah -- Tom's wife Laura has Bob beat easily.  No contest (and I
>haven't even seen Bob:)

You will be pleased to know that, yucky hearts aside, I am extremely
cute.
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Getting serious for a moment, I think it's absolutely wonderful news
for our community that Robert Dewar is saying they'll be coordinating
a little better with LabTek.  In the past, it depended on what day you
went to the Gnat site whether or not you'd even be let in on the
existence of the LabTek Windows 95 port.  I appreciate (or at any
rate, believe) that there are some financial interests involved.  This
is an unselfish gesture, and I think it ought to be recognized and
applauded.
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While I'm sort of on the same topic, I hope the relevant folks are
paying attention to the Win32 API that's in the process of coming
out, I believe through the Cygnus GnuWin32 folks.  There's an opportunity
for some synergy here, I believe.  I apologize for not knowing the
name of the author; this represents a tremendous amount of work.
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This past weekend I got my VRML page in shape and drastically improved
the links.  There are now screen grabs of all the VRML sites on my
list.  It's at http://hiwaay.net/~crispen/vrml/

Why would I bring this up in an Ada newsgroup?  Because there is quite a
fight going on right now in the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language)
community about the external API.  I have been carrying the spear for
having at least one of the APIs be in Java bytecode, with the not very
well hidden agenda of being able to reuse Ada via AppletMagic.

If there are folks here who have an interest in VRML, and who believe
it might have some value when coupled with Ada, you might want
to join this discussion by sending email to majordomo@wired.com
consisting of the line:

        subscribe www-vrml

As with any net community, they appreciate folks being up to speed a
little bit on the issues.  You might want to check my VRML webpage and
follow down some of the links.  And please do lurk a while, read the
specs and so on before you jump in.

I should point out that this is a technical mailing list.  Problems
with installing a VRML browser on your system and working the controls
and questions about where to get a VRML browser are best asked elsewhere.

Bob Crispen
revbob@eight-ball.hv.boeing.com
Speaking for myself, not my company