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Subject: Re: Compiler business prospects
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:26:46 +0100
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Le Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:24:27 +0100, Erich <john@peppermind.com> a =C3=A9=
crit:

> 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=E2=80=A6 but stil=
l two  =

things: there is no GUI toolkit which could please everyone (just think =
 =

about portability issues: GDI/Windows, GTK/Ubuntu, Cocoa/Mac, Qt/BSD, an=
d  =

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 come=
s  =

with at least a modern browser). Unless you need real=E2=80=91time graph=
ics or  =

real=E2=80=91time audio, a web page is a good material for a GUI (you wi=
ll just  =

need a socket binding and some serialization to talk with the UI).

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity