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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f15b862e11b575a4 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:38:02 -0600 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 06:37:33 -0500 From: "Peter C. Chapin" Subject: Re: Air traffic control system in Java In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4d6ffe16$0$17930$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> <4d701d79$0$17918$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> <4d711c62$0$27719$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4d712326$0$27719$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4d712b6a$0$17204$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <0b3daa32-8571-4a7f-a96f-cd876f4c4127@d12g2000prj.googlegroups.com> <4d712e64$0$17204$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <1l023eg1ilrni.xwge3tgrabol$.dlg@40tude.net> <882b38e2-0eaa-4b2e-944c-692eca47908f@q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (WNT 1167 2008-08-23) X-X-Sender: pcc09070@vtc.vsc.edu@webmail.vtc.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-MAsj+zeodXkxs0Mkp11Xj7ZJtL895xuJ7pGrmXc/6T/L8pYND5yLw/PRqMY4bZK2Q8aEpZMOfRDA5EL!4bwFgNDMMZz1bmmA3HikfvVcmtP55Ve0b1JxpXMFmah0jPtqBbc2OSg5ro4nuMVtdPWXQn3VWA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3209 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:18859 Date: 2011-03-05T06:37:33-05:00 List-Id: On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > So, why isn't any one using Ada to write GUI based applications then if > the GUI is there? May be because most Ada programmers are more interested > in system, embedded applications? I think that's a significant reason. I see Ada as a strong systems language and many programs of that sort do not need GUIs. In fact it doesn't even make sense for them to have GUIs in many cases. Right now I'm working with some students on a embedded system using SPARK that will drive a nano-satellite. A GUI is the last thing on our minds. This is not to say that Ada wouldn't be good at desktop applications, but I'm not sure GUI programming, per se, would play into the language's strengths. Disclaimer: I know very little about GUI programming. As an aside one of my students mentioned to me about the recent effort to port Ada to Android. He was interested in this because a) he's coming to like Ada and b) he's taking a class on Android programming. I think it's great to see Ada moving into that domain. There was a posting here not long ago about it and I applaud those efforts. Peter