From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Thickening Ada GTK or Vala Binding ?
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:51:24 -0600
Date: 2012-12-28T17:51:24-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kblb9t$b11$1@munin.nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 13mq4q166dvto.18m38jiqi1pv3$.dlg@40tude.net
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:53:27 -0800 (PST), Patrick wrote:
...
>> Ada should not only be for journeymen programmers, it has a lot to offer
>> to everyone, I think the community needs more people working to lower the
>> very high barrier to accomplishing something with it on the desktop.
>
> I don't believe that bindings to any GUI framework (Gtk, Qt, Win32 etc)
> could be improved to achieve that.
I reluctantly have to agree with Dmitry. We tried to hide all of the warts
of Win32 with Claw, but that mainly made a different set of warts. I rather
doubt it is possible to hide everything mainly because the event-driven
model of programming simply does not mesh that well with "classical"
sequential code (and the same is true for object-oriented code). And it's
pretty much impossible to completely eliminate the event-driven nature of a
GUI. (That's especially true for "modeless" windows/dialogs.)
If someone knows how to pull it off, that's great. But I won't believe it
until I see it.
Randy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-28 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-27 17:45 Thickening Ada GTK or Vala Binding ? Patrick
2012-12-27 19:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-12-27 21:53 ` Patrick
2012-12-28 7:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-12-28 23:51 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2013-01-13 6:24 ` gautier_niouzes
2013-01-15 0:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-12-27 22:58 ` Brian Drummond
2012-12-27 23:06 ` Patrick
2012-12-28 9:53 ` Brian Drummond
2012-12-28 0:53 ` Robert Matthews
2012-12-28 1:41 ` Patrick
2012-12-28 2:03 ` Robert Matthews
2012-12-28 5:22 ` Vadim Godunko
2012-12-28 7:38 ` Vadim Godunko
2013-02-07 9:34 ` Gour
2013-02-08 6:49 ` Gour
2012-12-28 11:34 ` Justin Time
2012-12-28 23:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-11 1:40 ` Saulo
2013-01-11 12:02 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-01-11 20:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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