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From: Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Why not combine Ada and C++?
Date: 15 Oct 2001 20:55:13 GMT
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fr.fabien@infonie.fr wrote:

> The reason seems that there were no Ada libraries
> for stuff like GUI and ODBC and that to make a simple

It is important to use past tense, as you did. I feel very productive
with GtkAda and my PostgreSQL-binding, though it is a thick one and
though I also have to try two alternatives.

I want to point out to gnade, which is waiting for a closer look if
I could only find some time for it :) 

--- bite ----
The GNADE ODBC bindings are a thin Ada 95 binding to
ODBC.

The projects provides additionaly native bindings
to PostgreSQL and MySQL.
--- stop biting ---

> software you had to code by yourself a lot of stuff unlike VB , Java, or
> C++ where you have huge libraries to capitalize on.

Surely you won't include VB in a serious discussion about PLs.

As for myself I can ascertain my work with Ada helps me a lot
studying CS. The clear concept, the strong typeing and all the
professionality are wonderful.

I don't regard Ada as a programming language, it is a language for
software-engineering.

Just my $, and please consider your quoting :)

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