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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: GtkAda using Glade
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 09:25:15 +0200
Date: 2011-05-20T09:25:16+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s4eovo5mia1m.1bxgi69otlaas.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: e7bd5cf4-cf7c-461e-87e2-7a7c1c81821b@y12g2000yqh.googlegroups.com

On Thu, 19 May 2011 17:26:56 -0700 (PDT), Gautier write-only wrote:

> On 19 mai, 09:36, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
> wrote:
> 
>> Unfortunately the reality is that the GUI and the functional part of the
>> program are tightly interwoven. Therefore you need to be in full control of
>> both and want to shape the program's structure as you want for the sake of
>> clear design and maintainability (Ada's strengths). Any automatically
>> generated code is just an obstacle here.
>>
>> Sorry for sounding daemon's voice again. (:-))
> 
> I hope the smiley also applies to the last paragraph as well, and that
> you are joking by saying "any automatically generated code is just an
> obstacle here"...

I am not. BTW, this is one of the arguments against Ada generics. They
wandered to far into the realm of "generated" code. 

The point is simple. If the meta language is good, the object language is
irrelevant. Switch to the former. If you cannot, no reason to use it at
all.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-20  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-17 23:58 GtkAda using Glade Gary
2011-05-18  1:14 ` John B. Matthews
2011-05-18 11:56 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-05-18 13:58   ` Gary
2011-05-18 17:25     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-05-18 18:24       ` Gary
2011-05-18 18:27         ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-05-18 18:42           ` Gary
2011-05-18 21:54             ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-05-18 22:09               ` Gary
2011-05-18 23:15                 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-05-19  1:52                   ` Gary
2011-05-19  5:25               ` J-P. Rosen
2011-05-19  9:23                 ` Manuel Collado
2011-05-19  9:57                   ` J-P. Rosen
2011-05-18 20:19         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-05-18 20:45           ` Gary
2011-05-19  7:36             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-05-19 10:02               ` J-P. Rosen
2011-05-19 10:28                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-05-19 15:53                   ` J-P. Rosen
2011-05-19 22:57                     ` Gary
2011-05-20  0:54                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-20  1:41                 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-05-20  7:19                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-05-20  7:34                     ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-05-20  7:45                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-05-20  0:26               ` Gautier write-only
2011-05-20  7:25                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2011-05-20  9:50                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-22  6:22                   ` Gautier write-only
2011-05-22  7:04                   ` Gautier write-only
2011-05-22  8:16                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-05-20  0:49               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-20  7:36                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-05-20  8:01                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-05-20 10:00                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-20 12:55                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-05-19  5:18         ` J-P. Rosen
2011-05-19  5:12     ` J-P. Rosen
2011-05-18 23:31 ` Rick
2011-05-19  1:52   ` Gary
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