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From: Ronald Dauster <rpd@gido.remove_this_part.de>
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Subject: Re:was: why ada is so unpopular ?
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Luke A. Guest wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:21:16 +0100, Szymon Guz wrote:
> 
> 
>>well.. I know that, but my problem is a little bit different. I don't 
>>have money for sth like Builder or Kylix or Visual but I think that my 
>>program really needs to operate on some windows. I don't want to write 
>>that using WinApi nor Gtk; First of all the Gtk/Qt licence is not good 
>>for me and WinApi is terrible. I wanted to use wxWindows. It is written 
>>in C++, that's why I still don't know what to choose. Mix wxWindows(C++) 
>>with Ada or just use C++.
> 
> 
> Hmm, I asked this on the wxWindows list the other day, the reply was that
> the easiest way to do it would be to add an Ada backend to SWIG and use
> the code from wxPython.
> 

Writing a language backend for SWIG is by no means trivial.  In
addition, the SWIG mappings for different languages have very
different capabilities.  That means, to get a clean Ada interface
the wxPython interface will need a lot of tweaking.