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 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-11 07:39:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Future with Ada Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:15:12 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9v57u1$mfb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1008083713 23019 136.170.200.133 (11 Dec 2001 15:15:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Dec 2001 15:15:13 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:17762 Date: 2001-12-11T15:15:13+00:00 List-Id: Certainly, XML would be a good basis for reasons of portability. Not only for GUI building but any sort of document formatting. So hypothetically, a good start would be to build a word processor in Ada that stored its documents in XML and, if possible, had its GUI built from XML. If it defined its own kind of Look-and-Feel, it would be the basis for a suite of other tools. You'd have built your own means of generating and displaying XML and defined a style of interaction that could be taken over to a spreadsheet, e-mail program, etc. It could be the "Killer App" that starts having Ada make its inroad into the popular idiom. The portability thing alone would be a real major advantage considering all the flavors of Windows, Unix, etc that are out there. Hmmmmm........ 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/ "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." wrote in message news:mailman.1008016322.1298.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org... > From: Bob Leif > To: Marin Condic et al. > "A suite of office tools (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, > database, e-mail, calendar, address book, web browser, etc...) that is > written in Ada". Yes! I might note that the trick is to base the suite on > XML. Then, one can achieve true platform independence. A large number of > Microsoft's customers use Microsoft products because we have no other real > choice. We would gladly switch to something that was dependable. An Ada > product where the sources were available would have, as I have published, > the great advantages of truly distributed production (minimal overhead > costs), extensibility by third parties, and thanks to ASIS an equitable way > to distribute the royalties to the developers. Parenthetically, a well > designed office suite would have such minimal hardware requirements, it > would wreck havoc on PC sales. I might note that a virus checker should be > included in these tools. >