Re: Ada95 and .NET

["David Botton" <David@Botton.com>]

As was pointed out, using GNATCOM you already have access to .NET's GUI and
common runtime library. Granted that doing so may be considered by you a bit
of a "Kludge" since it is being accessed through COM instead of by
interpreted C# code. I would though say Ada is not exactly in the backseet
for .NET support.

A true .NET port is certainly a thought in many peoples mind and a fairly
realistic project since .NET is not much more then MS's old JVM with a twist
or two. A little work and JGNAT could be singing .NET. I think that when the
time is ripe there will be commercial and/or volunteer Ada.NETs running
around.

David Botton



----- Original Message -----
From: "William J. Thomas" <wjthomas@wcvt.com>

> If doing so would by any means give Ada an early in-road to a new market,
or
> put Ada in a position of being 'out in front' or 'just in time' for a
> change, then you can almost bet that it will be a good two years ( or
> however long it takes to possibly have no positive impact at all) before
you
> will see an implementation for the .NET platform.  And when you do see Ada
> on the .NET platform you can be sure it will be some kludged superficial
> hack that requires contortions, cranks, and incantations to fire up just a
> Console application. An implementation that fully embraces the .NET
concepts
> along with a full blown 'state of the art' kick ass GUI builder, well.....
> Just be thankful that you have Ada for embedded systems and leave the .NET
> GUI world to C#.