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=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_LOCAL_HEX, FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f15b862e11b575a4 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Vinzent Hoefler" <0439279208b62c95f1880bf0f8776eeb@t-domaingrabbing.de> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Air traffic control system in Java Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:51:06 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4d6ffe16$0$17930$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> <835e91b1-50f7-4b20-beaf-5b5afcc66cc5@r4g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <4d701d79$0$17918$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> <4d711c62$0$27719$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4d712326$0$27719$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <4d712b6a$0$17204$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <0b3daa32-8571-4a7f-a96f-cd876f4c4127@d12g2000prj.googlegroups.com> <4d712e64$0$17204$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net T0VpzVgCN/rpCywMxiN3vQj9q2BsScbMOOMAdxe21jbDZGxCBz Cancel-Lock: sha1:Spt6Zzr+63BqJS12JpFPwXOgL4M= User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.01 (Win32) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:18802 Date: 2011-03-04T19:51:06+01:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > No, not at all. What fraction of programmers will spend their > careers working on embedded systems? A large fraction. Embedded systems are virtually everywhere and someone has to program them. And even if that were not the case, most programmers are bound to implement logic, GUI is only a small part of the programming job and - if done correctly - in the hands of a designer, not in the hands of the programmer anyway. So I seriously doubt, that GUI programming is the majority of programming at all. It's only the most visible and if you design a smart interface it can even be done in a different language. :) And in one of my previous occupations the GUI was done in Python, which was connected to an Object-Pascal backend with a remote call interface, and the newly developed hard real-time embedded device which replaced the old one was done in Ada. So, only one third of that whole system had a (G)UI at all, not even counting the fact that the embedded device was needed at least twice there. BTW, if sending out HTML can be considered "user-interface", Ada is well fit for the purpose with AWS. ;) Vinzent. -- A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors. -- Waldi Ravens