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Subject: Re: Yes, there is an ADA language
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On 23.11.16 05:13, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

> Think standalone applications! Ada is totally useless in modern Window$ without a GUI DOM and a built-in SQL engine like Foxpro's Rushmore.

You seem to have limited insight into the spectrum of Windows
applications.

In both modern and traditional Windows™, Ada programs would
of course use the GUI as needed. The .NET version of GNAT
also offers integration with the latest, and its tools.
Packaging an app with SQLite as a full RDMBS is working
well, and gives you a standalone application. But!

In a modern business environment, application programs do *not*
typically stand alone, they are parts of a distributed application.
They  do use the network for shared data access etc, so standing
alone puts you in a corner, actually. Visual FoxPro did advertise
corresponding capabilities, so even there, "standalone" is a niche
argument to start with.

I'll not go on to what it means for an application to only run
in modern Windows™, or even just Windows™.

> Find and talk to a *good* Visual Foxpro programmer in your area. Let him/her show you how fast one could raise and build a business application *from scratch*.

First, there is a touch of slyness to building a business
application from scratch. Both businesses and business
applications typically rest on existing foundations, on site.

Second, things like FoxPro were languages made for massaging
a given business application programming library.  Now remove
the database aspect from the Foxpro language to see what remains.


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