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Subject: Re: Newbie Needs Ada Advice
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Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh+bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de> writes:

> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:27 -0700, ezkcdude wrote:
>
>> I am not really concerned with looks. Most important are 1)
>> functionality 2) performance and 3) ease of programming. Java really
>> seems to have the upper hand in #3. Is this not the case?
>
> You can write a graphical front end easily using a toolset of your
> choice and have the graphical front end talk to the Ada backend
> using like RPC, Corba, or just simple pipes; basically
> any one of the commonly used protocol styles should work. 
>
> Maybe there is additional benefit in defining a simple
> command language for controlling the microscope; the graphical
> front end will send the commands, the control back end (Ada)
> interprets the commands, and reports status information in
> return.

And additional advantage would be, that commandline or script-based
command language would practically come naturally. The more I think
about it, the more I like the idea.

Regards -- Markus