RE: Why write an Ada web browser ?, was: Re: GNAT Ada - DLL - MSVC

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

From: Bob Leif
To: Jeffrey Carter and Preben Randhol et al.
If the XML XForms package were implemented in Ada, it would be possible
to employ it as the basis for both applications. Please note that both
the description of the project and the code for project Oberon by Wirth
and Gutnecht was covered in a book of 548 pages. Oberon includes a
compiler, an operating system and electronic mail service. 

XML can be run under XHTML. However, I believe that an all or mostly Ada
implementation would best be done in pure XML. The coherence of a two
language enterprise can be maximized if the Ada package specifications
and XML schemas use the same data types. 

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org] On Behalf Of Preben Randhol
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 2:49 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: Why write an Ada web browser ?, was: Re: GNAT Ada - DLL -
MSVC

Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote on 13/06/2002 (00:41) :
> 
> I would like a browser/mail reader/news reader that is more secure
than
> the existing ones. Engineering it in Ada would be very helpful in
> achieving that.

Why on earth do you want to put all these things into single
application? I would rather have two optimised applications that can
talk to eachother then one single application. One reason is that each
project would be smaller. The other is that when I use a web browser I
don't want to be forced to also have its mail reader installed as I
might want to use some other program or visa versa. At the moment I use
Galeon (a web browser only) which uses the Mozilla redering engine.

-- 
Preben Randhol         <For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.>