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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-08 14:01:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3BC20533.F2F0E29@lmtas.lmco.com> Subject: Re: is Ada dying? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:56:55 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.137.182 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 1002574605 62.252.137.182 (Mon, 08 Oct 2001 21:56:45 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 21:56:45 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13969 Date: 2001-10-08T21:56:55+01:00 List-Id: "Gary Scott" wrote in message news:3BC20533.F2F0E29@lmtas.lmco.com... > > > "chris.danx" wrote: > > > > "Ralph M�ritz" wrote in message > > news:Xns9133DBAF0AD71ralphworkcoza@196.25.240.158... > > > I'm just starting out learning Ada, but it seems Ada is dying. From what I > > > can see very few people use Ada, out of about 15 000 projects on > > > Sourceforge only 32 are written in Ada! > > > > Make that 33. There is a project to develop a cross platform technology > > known as the Andromeda GUI project. It's meant to be source level > > compatible and is to be written in a variety of languages of which Ada is > > one. The idea grew from a discussion on alt.os.development, with developers > > wanting to do minimal porting of apps to their kernels. i.e. develop on > > windows, unix etc but transfer it to their OSes without changing a single > > line. It's very early in it's design and there are only two developers at > > present. > > Reinventing the wheel...see GINO and Winteracter... GINO? Where's that? I just tried a search but ended up with a load of links to italian blokes (not suprisingly). Winteracter is fortan, right? Andromeda is meant to be a language indepedant standard with implementations in Ada and C to begin with. It is meant to ease the burden on OS developers should they choose to provide an implementation. It's graphical component will be based upon OpenGL because a large variety of cards support OpenGL, making it easier on the developer (assuming (s)he can develop a driver for their OS, which is a different issue altogether). Wait is GINO fortran-based too? Some of the searches for GINO gui came up fortran. That's no good, it's not language independant. You'd have to write a binding for it. The project was only mentioned because there's sure to be an experimental implementation for windows written in Ada (and one in C to see how well the rules work) before the objective is achieved. Chris p.s. is it sufficient for pragma Linker_Options ("ogl32.dll") to be added to the bindings supplied with Glut, to get it to work on windows?