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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Portable GUI (was Re: Future with Ada)
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Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com> writes:

> <snip description of results of student study>
> 
> The conclusion:   Ada is attractive, as a language.   It is not attractive
> when one examines the associated development tools and libraries. We
> have a long way to go.

What sort of application did they do? If it's a GUI system, this makes
perfect sense. For an embedded real time system, I'd be more
surprised.

And what exactly were the development environments used? (for all the
languages).

Is there any sort of published/web accessible description of this?

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-- Stephe