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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6bfccba244d92efd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) Subject: Re: Choose Ada flyer Date: 1999/01/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 434626841 References: <36759F4A.20D3C90C@grep.net> <77vkl5$9ub$1@remarQ.com> Organization: * JerryWare *, Leiden, Holland Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: news.oxy.com (Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com) wrote: : One of the factors that is preventing ADA from expanding in non military : areas is the lack of RAD IDEs like Borland Delphi and other tools mentioned : in Paul message (especially for Windows NT) . Just nailing it down to the IDE is not really sufficient, OA - for example- has quite a nice IDE and Win32 integration. For Ada to make inroads into the IS departments for NT based systems, a lot more is needed, among which: a) a reliable, simple to use, database system; b) alternatively, easy interfacing to available data sources c) a good IS centered (Martin) design tool integrating with Ada d) an easy to use, form based, UI generator e) lots of low cost supporting libraries d) DCOM, CORBA, ODBC, etc, automation and for us lower level types: a) a freely available POSIX standard for using OS features like file and record locking in a OS independant manner; b) Said POSIX libary standard with all relevant Ada compilers on all relevant platforms. Anyone offering such a contact ? :-) -- -- Jerry van Dijk | Leiden, Holland -- Team Ada | jdijk@acm.org -- see http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk