Re: Air traffic control system in Java

[Rick <rickduley@gmail.com>]

On Mar 4, 7:00 am, Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> wrote:
> Calling the ability to build user interfaces "drawing pretty pictures"
> so desperately misses the point that it's tragic.

Methinks you miss the point, Hyman.  The comment was not made in
refence to the august minds who populate this usergroup.  The comment
referred to the attitudes of students who cannot yet understand the
concept of an Air Traffic Control System.

Most of those students, in Australia anyway, will rarely have the
opportunity to work with anything other than Windows.  This makes
working in Ada with graphics difficult.  There is a range of useful
graphics add ins for PC - GtkAda, and John English's JEWL spring to
mind.  These are great, but the package X_WINDOWS (http://
www.aprobe.com/user_guide/legacy/legacy_101.html) but that has a
special requirement:

"X Window programs can only run if the RISC System/6000 AIXwindows
Environment/6000 licensed program (5601-257) is installed."

So the main point of my posting stands - the core language Ada does
not support graphics.  I am only suggesting that it would be great if
it did.