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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,59f7ca851a394aa3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dirk@diogenes.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Dirk Dickmanns) Subject: Re: Reasons NOT To Choose Ada (NOT!) Date: 1996/11/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 196191722 references: <32872161.19FE@eurocontrol.fr> <56ari3$htp@mirage.iassf.easams.com.au> organization: University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Dirk Dickmanns -- REALIS -- real-time dynamic computer vision Sun OS 4.1.3; PC Linux; Ada, OCCAM, C, Eiffel, PROLOG, C++