Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide

["David Botton" <David@Botton.com>]

You should have contacted ACT. GLIDE combined with CLAW and GNATCOM at the
time would have given you the IDE (GLIDE), the GUI (CLAW) and the leverage
of all of MS's latest technologies (GNATCOM), and would have offered you
just as much (BTW, as a _very_ long term developer of MFC apps, you quickly
have to throw out the generated code to get most things done on large
projects :-). There are additional solutions available (and up and coming)
now, so on your next project, I wouldn't back down from Ada :-)

David Botton


"Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@acm.org> wrote in message
news:39A7C4B7.E6D655C1@acm.org...
> I'll say this: If there was a fully integrated development kit similar
> to MSVC++ for PC development using Ada, it would be one heck of a
> competitor. Perhaps something like Claw merged with Adagide and spiffed
> up to be more feature-rich. I know that the only reason we're using C++
> for this development is because any attempt to use Ada would have meant
> a huge time-to-market lag. All the downside costs of C++ become
> irrelevant in comparison.