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-Thread: 103376,4b27f494a96e0530 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!prodigy.com!atl-c02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!news-out.ntli.net!newsrout1-gui.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe5-win.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A community Windows binding References: <2004100600261150073%david@bottoncom> <2smd6iF1mo0mcU1@uni-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <2smd6iF1mo0mcU1@uni-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 23:17:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.4.70.84 X-Complaints-To: http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport X-Trace: newsfe5-win.ntli.net 1097277456 80.4.70.84 (Sat, 09 Oct 2004 00:17:36 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 00:17:36 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4941 Date: 2004-10-08T23:17:36+00:00 List-Id: Nick Roberts wrote: > I have long felt that the approach most suited to a concurrent language > (such as Ada) is for the 'window manager' to be a separate task, or > possibly many tasks. You might want to look at Joe Armstrongs' X stuff for Erlang. This takes a radically different approach from the 'standard' GUI approaches. Might help stimulate some new ideas.