Re: Reasons NOT To Choose Ada (NOT!)

[dirk@diogenes.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Dirk Dickmanns)]

bjw@mirage.iassf.easams.com.au (Brendan WALKER) writes:

>Yes but how many of the numerous inexpensive and effective GUI
>development tools generate Ada code automatically? The answer is hardly
>any and the ones that do are *very* expensive and often not as good.
>OK, if you want to write X-windows based GUI's from scratch all the
>time use Ada with X bindings (Yuk!), fine.

Well, there is at least one system that proves you wrong.

XForms with fdesign
- comes with the possibility to generate Ada code,
- is free for non-commercial use,
- is, as far as I used it, very stable,
- allows access to Xlib for your own graphics,
- and it is not such a BLOATED PIG you get elsewhere.
http://ocsystems.com/xada/xforms1.html

>But the smart players use
>tools to generate the majority of their GUI code automatically, and this
>pushes them towards C++, particularily if they are using an OOD paradigm
>for their overall system design.

Aaah, nice being called a smart player.  But...
Some are even smarter and resist the push ;-)

Dirk

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