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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a20c6510248c3334 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Vladimir Olensky" Subject: Re: Visual Basic and ADA95 Date: 1999/10/20 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 538349137 References: <380CBFA4.BB241336@fmr.com> Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Date: 1999-10-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Vladimir Olensky wrote in message ... > >Mike Biedronski wrote in message <380CBFA4.BB241336@fmr.com>... > >>Does anyone have info on how to link VB & ADA applications? Working on >>a single client PC application and would like to use VB for the front >>end, and ADA for backend. > > >I would prefer to use Delphi for front end instead of VB for >single PC application. I find Delphi much more convenient >and better than VB in many respects. Some more additional arguments in favor of Delphi over VB: 1. It will be soon available for Linux developers : MS VB will never run on Linux. Extras from http://www.borland.com/about/press/1999/linuxdev.html : ================================================= SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. -- Sept. 28, 1999 -- Inprise Corporation (Nasdaq: INPR), today announced that it is developing a high performance Linux application development environment that will support C, C++, and Delphi development. The project, code named "Kylix", is set for release next year and will be one of the first high performance Rapid Application Development (RAD) development tools for the Linux platform. "Inprise is moving forward to deliver application development software for the Linux platform," said Dale Fuller, interim president and CEO of Inprise Corporation. "We believe Project Kylix will define rapid application development for Linux and deliver a fast and powerful path for professional application development on the Linux platform. With the strong heritage of Delphi and C++Builder behind Project Kylix, speed to market for developing applications and porting across Windows and Linux should be significantly increased." Project Kylix is currently planned to be a Linux component based development environment for two-way visual development of graphical user interface (GUI), Internet, database, and server applications. Plans are for Project Kylix to be powered by a new high-speed native C/C++/Delphi compiler for Linux and will implement a Linux version of the Borland VCL (Visual Component Library) architecture. The Borland VCL for Linux will be designed to radically speed native Linux application development and simplify the porting of Delphi and C++Builder applications between Windows and Linux. ============================================== 2. Easy to use: >> Also, I am not familiar with using the WIN32 API so that's another constraint. Using Delphi you do not need to know much about Win32 APIs unless you want to use them directly for some reasons. Almost all of them are wrapped into ready and very easy to use classes in VCL which is very thick bindings to Win APIs . So the use of that components will be the same on Windows and later on Linux platforms. Regards, Vladimir Olensky