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!news3.google.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: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:50:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4d6ffe16$0$17930$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.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$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> <1l023eg1ilrni.xwge3tgrabol$.dlg@40tude.net> <882b38e2-0eaa-4b2e-944c-692eca47908f@q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 5ujsl+NGgnpgs/SDwgDH1QsOubYccgxrIfQELxwRbLnUEOvRTh Cancel-Lock: sha1:h1CNpkC2D7fmv4vmrvqS2sA2NhU= User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.01 (Win32) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:18843 Date: 2011-03-05T08:50:23+01:00 List-Id: Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > On 3/4/2011 11:15 PM, Vinzent Hoefler wrote: > >> After all, there's GtkAda, that's probably as cross-platform as it will >> ever get and yet it doesn't convince users to use Ada. > > Other than GPS and the work by Dmitry and few others using GTK here, > where are the Ada GUI apps written using GTK Ada? Right. And who thinks that may change if something like that gets into the language standard? I don't. > So, something is wrong here in this picture. In other systems, > I can go to Google and search and find tens of thousands of > GUI apps written by other languages. Sorry to say that, but with Ada you're really lucky if you find "tens of thousands" of apps at all, GUI or not. Well, probably there even /are/ tens of thousands of apps in Ada, we just don't put our stuff on Sourceforge, and so don't others. ;) > plplot and integrated all in one visualization scientific app. I guess > I have to try myself one day to see if it work, may be I will > be the first who will use Ada with GTK and Plplot to make a complete > scientific Ada GUI application, and I will become very famous :) :) Good luck. (And that I mean seriously.) Vinzent. -- A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors. -- Waldi Ravens