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: 103376,714a8558b02b32bb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-20 02:59:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GUI was Re: why Ada is so unpopular ? Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:59:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PVV Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: k-083152.nt.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1074596350 7503 129.241.83.152 (20 Jan 2004 10:59:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:59:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4567 Date: 2004-01-20T10:59:10+00:00 List-Id: On 2004-01-20, Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Preben Randhol wrote: >:> that available from Adobe. This could then serve as a foundation to host >:> XForms. >: >: Why would we want to use a library that *only* works on one OS. I >: thought the point was a *portable* library. > > XForms is intended to be not only "portable" but also abstract. I wasn't talking about xforms. I was commenting on that one could use CLAWS -- "Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming language."