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,a50a3c40267219cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-15 15:42:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why not combine Ada and C++? References: <01c155a0$7dd31b80$1b7af2c3@akzvbymr> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:42:40 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 1003185760 24.7.82.199 (Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:42:40 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:42:40 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14615 Date: 2001-10-15T22:42:40+00:00 List-Id: > The reason seems that there were no Ada libraries > for stuff like GUI and ODBC and that to make a simple > software you had to code by yourself a lot of stuff > unlike VB , Java, or C++ where you have huge libraries to > capitalize on. There's a substantial, commonly available, GUI etc library called Windows, and several different Ada versions of its API, at varying levels of abstraction, and even tools to create Ada versions of new Windows libraries (eg Gnatcom). Have you looked at www.adapower.com recently? at all?