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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Thickening Ada GTK or Vala Binding ?
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:51:24 -0600
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Date: 2012-12-28T17:51:24-06:00
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"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.