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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: T'Interface attribute Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 09:13:06 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: MajGvm9MbNtGBKE7r8NgYA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47670 Date: 2017-08-10T09:13:06+02:00 List-Id: On 2017-08-10 01:03, Randy Brukardt wrote: > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote in message > news:omeca9$11pb$1@gioia.aioe.org... >> On 2017-08-09 02:38, Randy Brukardt wrote: >>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote in message >> >>> We didn't bother. My recollection is that Windows doesn't make a distinction >>> anyway, I believe all Windows "windows" can be clicked, just some have >>> default actions in that case, and others do nothing. >> >> So you basically drop typing. I don't. There are lots of languages going >> this path. Why use Ada? > > We were binding Windows (specifically Win32), not creating some abstract > GUI. Trying to impose typing on an underlying design (especially one as > complex as Win32) that doesn't have it is almost always a losing game. I am not a fan of MFC, yet they tried that. But basically you confirmed my point, it is either interfaces or low-level and weakly-typed. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de