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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-18 06:20:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.tpinternet.pl!atlantis.news.tpi.pl!news.tpi.pl!not-for-mail From: Szymon Guz Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why ada is so unpopular ? Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 15:17:20 +0100 Organization: tp.internet - http://www.tpi.pl/ Message-ID: References: <49cbf610.0401170627.79c3dfe5@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.skynet.org.pl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nemesis.news.tpi.pl 1074435752 3814 195.116.185.50 (18 Jan 2004 14:22:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@tpi.pl NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:22:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031008 X-Accept-Language: pl, en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4529 Date: 2004-01-18T15:17:20+01:00 List-Id: Ronald Dauster wrote: > 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 > > > The Gtk and Qt licenses are substantially different. GTK is under > LGPL and I do not see, where this creates a problem. Qt, of course, > either requires your application to be licensed under GPL or you have > to buy a commercial license. > well... I wrote that thinking that GTK is licenced under GPL, I'll check that because I'm not sure how it really is. The commercial licence of Qt is too expensive for me and the GPL licence means that my program have to licensed under GPL and I want to avoid that. >> 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++. > > > As far as I know, there is no Ada binding to wxWindows and, given the > size and programming style of wxWindows, it will be a _lot_ of work to > create one. > so does that all mean that I should use C++ for that ?