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From: rob@z <rob_member@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: Future with Ada
Date: 12 Dec 2001 00:33:35 -0800
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In article <9v57u1$mfb$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin says...
>
>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.  

you guys are going about it all the wrong way.

to make Ada more popular, you do not need to write yet another word 
processor in it (star office is doing pretty well anyway).

Put the effort into reusable standard packages. there are so many
areas where Ada has no standard packages to do things. Take Java 
libraries as an example.