From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Compiler business prospects
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:26:46 +0100
Date: 2012-02-01T14:26:46+01:00 [thread overview]
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Le Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:24:27 +0100, Erich <john@peppermind.com> a écrit:
> As a newbie who has started to appreciate Ada (after an initial
> painful learning phase) I'd say that Ada doesn't need another compiler
> but rather an *affordable* cross-platform GUI toolkit that can be used
> for the development of commercial software.
>
> By affordable I mean 100$ to 300$. I would love to use Ada for larger
> standalone GUI applications but the main choices QtAda and GtkAda are
> simply out of question for a hobby shareware developer like me. :(
Someones don't agree, and I understand the reasons why… but still two
things: there is no GUI toolkit which could please everyone (just think
about portability issues: GDI/Windows, GTK/Ubuntu, Cocoa/Mac, Qt/BSD, and
some others), and there already is a handy to use and portable GUI
interface, which is a web page in a web browser (all major platform comes
with at least a modern browser). Unless you need real‑time graphics or
real‑time audio, a web page is a good material for a GUI (you will just
need a socket binding and some serialization to talk with the UI).
--
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-31 12:45 Compiler business prospects Georg Bauhaus
2012-01-31 14:36 ` Alan Jump
2012-01-31 23:24 ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-01 12:24 ` Erich
2012-02-01 13:26 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2012-02-01 20:31 ` Gautier write-only
2012-02-02 9:45 ` Stephen Leake
2012-02-02 10:27 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-02 13:40 ` Erich
2012-02-02 16:39 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-02-02 18:19 ` Erich
2012-02-03 3:51 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-03 10:29 ` Erich
2012-02-04 23:23 ` Stephen Leake
2012-02-06 10:40 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-02-07 11:30 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-07 11:34 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-04 23:23 ` Stephen Leake
2012-02-06 16:58 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-02-04 23:22 ` Stephen Leake
2012-02-03 19:11 ` Tero Koskinen
2012-02-04 1:52 ` Shark8
2012-02-04 23:27 ` Stephen Leake
2012-01-31 15:56 ` anon
2012-01-31 20:27 ` Gautier write-only
2012-02-04 3:43 ` anon
2012-02-04 6:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-04 14:57 ` AdaMagica
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