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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ab3c50aebe0aa719 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-21 09:11:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!lsanca1-snf1!news.gtei.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An Old Market in which Ada May Play From: Charles Hixson References: <3B2BF9CD.57D83FAF@acm.org> <3B2D5BA7.C7F6CCC3@linuxchip.demon.co.uk> <3B2D8037.8D26618D@acm.org> Organization: Mandala Fluteworks Message-ID: User-Agent: Xnews/4.06.11 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:11:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.94.156.19 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 993139918 198.94.156.19 (Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:11:58 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:11:58 PDT X-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:09:51 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8984 Date: 2001-06-21T16:11:58+00:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter wrote in news:3B2D8037.8D26618D@acm.org: > ... OK. One place to start would be with the Mozilla browser. The code is freely available. There's also one written in Python, Grail I think it was named. But with Mozilla you could just take a pleasing snapshot and then start replacing the C routines with Ada routines. It might not be the fastest approach, but you would immediately have a working browser, and you could make changes incrementally. And it was designed to be worked on in small pieces. -- Charles Hixson Copy software legally, the GNU way! Use GNU software, and legally make and share copies of software. See http://www.gnu.org http://www.redhat.com http://www.linux-mandrake.com http://www.calderasystems.com/ http://www.linuxapps.com/