"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
news:slrnaa98qb.s2.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no...
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:10:55 GMT, WJT wrote:
> >
> > After twenty years in the Ada scheme of things I'm willing to sacrifice
a
> > little portability in order to get the power I need on the Windows
platform.
>
> Which power is this?

The power that is offered by the underlying OS (of which a big part of is
the GUI), the same power achieved when I was willing to sacrifice
portability when using all of the features of the VMS operating system
(anyone remember VAX Ada, Ada was a first class citizen under VMS, it lacked
nothing)?

>
> > Besides this is Ada, if you architect you system correctly you should be
> > isolating you 'dependent things' into layers and subsystems and keeping
the
> > rest of you application true and ...Green.

Green, Green ... before Ada was Ada the baseline for what we now come to
know and love was referred to as the 'Green' version of the language (during
the 'design competition' phase of the language's development).

>
> ?
>
> --
> Preben Randhol         �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�