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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Choose Ada flyer
Date: 1998/12/15
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Paul Whittington <paul@grep.net> writes:

> I don't know exactly what the purpose of this material is, but it leaves
> me with the impression that Ada is the right choice for large or safety
> critical applications.
> 
> It seems to me that the majority of software being written today falls
> into the non-safety critical category, and the sponsors/developers do
> not identify what they're doing as a "large" project.  
> 
> IMHO, any software worth writing is large enough to warrant the use of 
> Ada.
> 
> What I would want to know is 
> 
> - Is there an Ada Delphi or Visual Basic like environment that supports 
>   the development of desktop GUI MIS-type applications?  Does it support
>   a platform portable GUI like Tcl/Tk or JFC?  
> 
> - Are there Ada based tools that support enterprise level development?  
>   CORBA, COM, DCOM, application servers, SQL database servers, LDAP,
>   and legacy system integration?
> 
> - What about WWW deployment?  Do tools exist to support the development
>   of thin client network applications implemented as WWW server 
>   extensions?  What platforms and servers? 
> 
> - Do these tools come with batteries included, or do I have to have 
>   gurus on my team to integrate all sorts of technologies together to 
>   get a useful development tool set?
> 
> - How about third-party component/tools/utilities vendors?  Where do I 
>   go when I need to add fax, paging or report generation capabilities
>   to my application?
> 
> - How many vendors are there for these kinds of tools, and are they
>   likely to be around in five years?
> 
> Help me out here folks.  I love Ada.  From a language viewpoint there's
> no better language than Ada.  From a compiler/IDE, third-party support,
> vendor stability viewpoint I CAN'T CHOOSE Ada!
> 
> The closest thing I've found is Delphi.


I don't have much to say about developing GUIs with Ada, but if you want
an Ada development environment, then what's wrong with emacs?

Do programmers who don't use emacs think that emacs is just an editor?