RE: an interested business-oriented programmer

["Beard, Frank" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil>]

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From: Gary Scott [mailto:Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com]

> Hi,
> So why doesn't someone put together a "Visual Ada" product integrated
> with Visual Studio and mass market it?  They did it for Fortran...

That's what Aonix ObjectAda is, but I think for the past year or more
the marketing has become somewhat deficient.

There was a product called VisualAda, that pretty much went away,
but again I have forgotten who is maintaining the product.

>> Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
> 
> MSVC++ provides for all intents and
> purposes, its own version of C++. Using the whole of it, you won't build
> portable code - especially as you use the MFC. No portability, but boy can
> you get at all the nooks & crannies of Windows all from a nicely
integrated
> development environment.

Well, unfortunately, there is a company that advertises they've
ported the MFC to Unix.  I can't remember the name at the
moment, since I gave the flyer to a C++ co-worker who left about
six or eight months ago.  And since I wasn't interested, I don't
know how much of the MFC they ported.  I don't know if it would 
include any of the GUI support.

I've seen similar Ada products.  You build your GUI on Unix, then
re-compile and link with libraries on your Windows environment to
have the equivalent Windows GUI.

Frank