RE: A standard package for config files is needed

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: Ted Dennison et al.
I agree about "bandwagon" argument. However, this time the Ada community
can use it to our advantage. Ada has a good fit with XML; Java does not.
If we go along with XML for the Web, we obviate the need for Java. To
put it bluntly, we get down to two reasonably compatible languages.
Otherwise, Ada is the odd woman left out. 

This is a question of strategic marketing NOT technology. Ada could
probably implement and improve upon most of XML; however, this is NOT
going to happen. Because of market pressures, we have had to interface
to Windows. A totally Ada solution would have been possible; but did not
happen. In fact, the easiest way to work with Windows is R&R CLAW,
because CLAW has the great virtue of being a thick binding, which hides
Windows.  

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org] On Behalf Of Ted Dennison
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 9:39 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed

Robert C. Leif wrote:

> From: Bob Leif
> To: Ted Dennison et al.
> Microsoft, SUN, and IBM are converts. For instance, one can import an
> XML file into Excel. 

If I were susceptable to the "bandwagon" argument, I wouldn't be using
Ada.