Re: Ada-Oriented GUI

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net> wrote in message 
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On Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 6:47:28 PM UTC-5, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> (Ada is wildly inappropriate for applications that are mostly GUI - use 
>> some
>> web-based langauge for that and use Ada for the heavy-duty processing.)

>So "Ada is wildly inappropriate for" graphical user interfaces in avionics 
>cockpits?
>Well, I guess that we can mark that one off the list then.  Real-time 
>avionics
>backend to control the fly-by-wire hardware of the airplane in Ada, and the
>GUI for the cockpit in C# or Java on CLR or JVM bytecode VMs, right?

Calling an avionics display a "GUI" is confusing at best; there is little 
relationship because of the strict requirements on avionics software. 
(Something like RX would be unlikely to fly - pun intended - there can't be 
"unexpected" anything in avionics software.)

For a conventional GUI (as in Windows or phone apps), some sort of web 
technology seems like the way to go. If done right, very little code in a 
conventional programming language is needed. One could use something like 
Gnoga for that code. So I'm thinking of more like Ada + HTML rather than Ada 
+ some other programming language.

                               Randy.