From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ffe4fb1477fe67e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:17:33 -0500 From: "Chip and Allie Orange" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1178212418.538270.283700@c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1178635220.859690.3310@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Newbie Needs Ada Advice Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:14:59 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.35.222.233 X-Trace: sv3-uJ6fKQJ3xG+Mi4ziMkYLhYdnoMUPsNjFiUZsdNJt4vUtdEZ7rsZau1Wky9UX9w3a6t44dR9Tmf4XU4W!CeG/jOD4KMQdtQ1LB7x+S08ibfRb13F6WJDjCNKptOpfuV4kzxT18+vWs909lkGnpTYUEVHt9h1U!K7sPPcU/6gURJ+fCYSYLt01Tqs0tXw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15732 Date: 2007-05-10T14:14:59-04:00 List-Id: "ezkcdude" 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