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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:23:09 -0600
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Marin David Condic wrote in message ...
>Also, if I were doing it, I wouldn't make bindings. I think that just
ends u
>p in the "Me Too!!!" category and makes your stuff dependent on what
happens
>in another language - also requiring you to haul around another
compiler. If
>you wanted a curses package, it would be better (and not that big a
deal) to
>implement it from the ground up in Ada and give it an Ada flavor while
>you're at it. You could probably even dramatically improve it beyond
just
>cursor positioning and the like - give it more of a GUI feel (DEC had
>something like this - pasteboards, windows, etc, all out of VT220's.)


That's JWindows, which has been a part of Janus/Ada for MS-DOS and
Janus/Ada for Unix since the late 1980's. We originally developed it to
use for our original IDE (JAWS). It does multiple, overlapping text
windows, colors, cursor control, and drop down menus. It's implemented
by a low-level package that went direct to the hardware on MS-DOS and
used termcap (the underlying mechanism for curses) on Unix.

We redesigned it for Ada 9x during the Ada 9x project (thus, the Ada 95
version is different than the Ada 83). Indeed, it provided the starting
model for Claw.

              Randy Brukardt.