From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-21 04:02:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: byhoe@greenlime.com (Adrian Hoe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Date: 21 Apr 2002 04:02:42 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <9ff447f2.0204210302.5f706b6a@posting.google.com> References: <3CB94312.5040802@snafu.de> <4519e058.0204150645.62003096@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0204170829.23915c65@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.106.196.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1019386963 808 127.0.0.1 (21 Apr 2002 11:02:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Apr 2002 11:02:43 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22860 Date: 2002-04-21T11:02:43+00:00 List-Id: "David Botton" wrote in message news:... > "Randy Brukardt" wrote in message > news:ubrtrt3lg3os74@corp.supernews.com... > > So it never made economic sense, I fear. > > And thus the "old" non open source model killed off the possibility that > CLAW would be the basis of a standard or be extended by the wider community > of programmers..... or outlive its own developers.... > > Imagine if my development efforts would have been used to modify and extend > CLAW instead of writing GWindows...... > > GWindows covers almost all areas of CLAW (some intentionally not covered) > and is way beyond it in other areas (database to control bindings, ActiveX, > etc.), CLAW would have been by now double its feature set and more and I > likely would have already completed many of my long term goals. (For > example, I only need about 6-8 months of full time work to complete, at > least in 1.0 terms, my Delphi like environment for Ada.... Some day.... some > how... eventually....) Yep, I am eager to see the tool arrives.. some day.. :) But then, there will be less fun writing Ada codes. All this interesting process will be subsituted by click, click, click and just click (like in Delphi right now). :( -- Adrian Hoe -- http://adrianhoe.com