Re: Newbie Needs Ada Advice

["Chip and Allie Orange" <acorange@comcast.net>]

"ezkcdude" <zamir.evan@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1178635220.859690.3310@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> Markus, thanks for the advice. I'm one of those people who loves to do
> the "right" thing, and it seems to me like Ada is, in theory, a great
> programming language. Of course, one has to be practical. The main
> issues that I am trying to wrestle with is how I would implement a GUI
> and, in general, handle graphics (display, manipulation, input/
> output). Java seems much more ready-made for these tasks at the
> moment, and I don't see the Ada packages have that much enthusiasm or
> support. It's unfortunate, because like I said, Ada seems like the
> "right" language to me for most of what my objectives are.
>
> One idea I have, and I'd love to hear advice or comments, is to use
> Ada as the "engine" for my program, and somehow use Java to create the
> GUI and deal with images. Does this seem like a possibility?
> -evan
>


I can't remember your development host requirements, but if it's only 
Windows, you've always got the option of using A#, and therefore all the 
visual studio GUI capabilities.

I'm in a similar position to you; being a newbie to Ada I'm about to start 
my own first large Ada project, and I think A# is what I'll try first.  Not 
for GUI reasons, but because of it's availability of some development tools 
specific to my project.

If I had a need for a platform-independent GUI, I'd certainly choose HTML 
(via AWS) over Java.

HTH,

Chip