From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Ada takes control of Internet Explorer
Date: 1999/09/12
Date: 1999-09-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909121035160.24475-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7rbjpf$25pk$1@news.gate.net
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, David Botton wrote:
> Preben Randhol wrote in message ...
> >| 3. Write an Ada OS
> >
> >I would rather have more Ada apps that uses GTK :-)
>
> I wouldn't GTK is written in C. When I am done with the COM stuff, I'll be
> back to my all __Ada__ GUI framework and then we can discuss if GTK is worth
> bothering with.
I think the fact that GTK is written in C is not really relevant. It seems
to be a decent windows toolkit and the Ada binding is not too bad either.
Rather than go off starting projects that have little hope of ever
succeeding it makes more sense to tackle some smaller Ada projects which
have a greater reward to work ratio. Since GTK has a lot of momentum, I'd
think something like a RAPID/GTK-Ada port (which appears to be in the
works!) would be useful. Your "all Ada" framework would talk to a C
windowing API at some level, right?
Another useful tool would be something like Python's os module, to make
portable access to a hierarchical file system in Ada easier. By "portable"
I mean that the Ada source to do a directory traversing program like
Unix "find", should not change between Unix, Windows, and Macintosh, at
least. Once again, this would involve binding to C-APIs. Since most of the
OSes out there have C-APIs to useful functionality, C is most definitely
worth bothering with IMO!
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-09 0:00 Ada takes control of Internet Explorer David Botton
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-10 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Ada takes control.../Ada OS Nick Roberts
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-12 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Ada takes control of Internet Explorer Preben Randhol
1999-09-10 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-09-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1999-09-13 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Ian Thomson
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