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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-17 21:34:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!yellow.newsread.com!bad-news.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Eric G. Miller" Subject: Re: Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <3CB77A6B.5090504@snafu.de> <184076622a7c648f157c56e417bd86d4.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> <3CB9375F.8040904@snafu.de> <3CB9AF3C.8030301@snafu.de> <3CBC5281.1040202@snafu.de> <3CBDAAA9.5050302@snafu.de> <555f76f7dd67c7f1678e027353d1a6a1.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> <3CBDE85F.9ACFD30@san.rr.com> <3CBE0457.6E7B82A8@san.rr.com> User-Agent: Pan/0.11.2 (Unix) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Comment-To: "Darren New" Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 04:34:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.119.27.53 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1019104488 216.119.27.53 (Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:34:48 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:34:48 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22697 Date: 2002-04-18T04:34:48+00:00 List-Id: In <3CBE0457.6E7B82A8@san.rr.com>, Darren New wrote: > Kent Paul Dolan wrote: >> >> "Darren New" wrote:. >> >> > How about a binding to Tk (of Tcl fame)? I thought GNAT already supports >> > that, yes? >> >> Reasonable, I presume you mean GtkAda, > > I haven't looked at GtkAda. I would have assumed that had Ada used Tk, > it would be called Ada/Tk, just like it's Perl/Tk, Python/Tk, and > Tcl/Tk. If GtkAda is actually Ada with Tck's Tk, then cool, let's make > that the standard. ;-) There is no connection between Tk and Gtk, though both have similar goals (gui abstraction layer and toolkit). AFAIK, both are written in C. >> Since there is already a Perl binding to Tk (which (PerlTk) I have >> used), the more languages that add in a Tk binding, the better chance >> you have of making it the de facto standard; > > That's what I thought, yah. And it's already portable amongst a wide > variety of desktop systems. And capable of supporting a variety of > programming interface styles. That is one benefit of Tk. It's been around longer, and has been ported to more systems than Gtk. But my impression is that Gtk2 smokes Tk in widget functionality, and certainly the Gtk1.x look and "feel" is better than most Tk programs I've used. I suspect in a year or so, Tk's advantage in portability will be less than today.