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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38d1fe109cd56c87 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." Subject: RE: GNAT, LINUX, KDE Date: 1999/11/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 552316311 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr Importance: Normal X-Trace: menuisier.enst.fr 943407872 25246 137.194.161.2 (24 Nov 1999 01:44:32 GMT) Organization: ENST, France X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Nov 1999 01:44:32 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-24T01:44:32+00:00 List-Id: From: Bob Leif To: Preben Randol et al. "I'm cannot say that I see the relevance to XML here? The question was about a grafical toolkit not markup language." You build the graphical tool kit out of the markup language rendering system. It would then be possible to build a windowing system (GUI) based on Ada tasking. The markup language is for rendering. It greatly facilitates creating windows or frames. When one uses a typical Internet application, the material one sees is predominantly based on HTML and its environment. The use of XML permits the creation of forms, equations, vector graphics etc. I never said that XML was in and of itself sufficient. However, the combination of Ada and XML would provide the type of technological discontinuity that permits a change in technology. Namely, we go from hacking with Windows to software engineering with Ada and XML. -----Original Message----- From: Preben Randhol [mailto:randhol@pvv.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 3:14 AM To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Subject: Re: GNAT, LINUX, KDE "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." writes: | Robert Dewar is probably correct for the short term concerning GtkAda. | However, for the long term, please visit www.w3.org. XML does math, has | vectors, data types, forms, etc and is programming language and operating | system independent. I believe that XML and the Web is where the software | action will be. I'm cannot say that I see the relevance to XML here? The question was about a grafical toolkit not markup language. -- Preben Randhol "Marriage is when you get to keep [randhol@pvv.org] your girl and don't have to give [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/] her back to her parents." (Eric, 6)