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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-08 12:25:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: More Uniform Ada libraries (was: Proving Correctness) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:16:39 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9ks36r$lf3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 997298203 21987 136.170.200.133 (8 Aug 2001 19:16:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Aug 2001 19:16:43 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11637 Date: 2001-08-08T19:16:43+00:00 List-Id: Very true and I often cite Claw as an example of what is available in the way of development tools for Ada. I think it would be an excelent and major part of a development kit for Windows. With a compiler, a debugger, an editor, maybe some library management and configuration management and an overall "How To" book, you'd have an excellent kit if all the pieces were smoothly integrated. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ wrote in message news:y9fc7.42123$Kd7.25933469@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com... > >The reason is that the libraries we need simply don't exist in Ada, while > >excellent ones are available in C. > On the Windows platform, at least, Claw is an example of an extensive > library that does exist in Ada, and Gnatcom is a tool to make it easy > to use things available in C (well, in DLL binary). So it's not as if > there's a complete wasteland for the Ada programmer.