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From: "G.B." <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:38:37 +0100
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On 15.03.16 14:18, G.B. wrote:
>
> Nor does any of the mainstream languages define anything
> in the language that specifically addresses GUI things.

BTW, some portable GUI related ideas such as OpenGL _could_
have portable operators forthcoming, insofar as operators
involve general practice like manipulating vectors. These
objects tend to be representable in many languages.

But, alas, APL's choice of symbols was too large, the
language designers went too far for that idea to be appreciated
as what it is: serious.