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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.52.190.129 with SMTP id gq1mr9126185vdc.2.1405898299795; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:18:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.34.168 with SMTP id l37mr319823qgl.3.1405898299773; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:18:19 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!j15no1731855qaq.0!news-out.google.com!j6ni3315qas.0!nntp.google.com!j15no1731853qaq.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:18:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.57.209.48; posting-account=zwxLlwoAAAChLBU7oraRzNDnqQYkYbpo NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.57.209.48 References: <53cab152$0$32501$862e30e2@ngroups.net> <5f6c4a25-4ed9-4b0e-bb60-199d012ee0d0@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <9163c87d-c9a8-46c3-91e7-05fca4b5d3da@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family? From: "Dan'l Miller" Injection-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:18:19 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2467 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1217121752 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:21084 Date: 2014-07-20T16:18:19-07:00 List-Id: On Sunday, July 20, 2014 5:51:43 PM UTC-5, gautier...@hotmail.com wrote: > Le lundi 21 juillet 2014 00:30:14 UTC+2, Shark8 a =E9crit=A0: > > Gnavi /does/ seem to be somewhat dead > Really ? One release this year so far (at least a 2nd one planned), one l= ast year, six in 2012... > Check here: http://sf.net/projects/gnavi/ I haven't written a Gnavi-based product yet (because my current work is not= limited to only Win32 on x86 processors, as Gnavi currently is), but based= on my own self-review of Gnavi: Gnavi deserves to be more widely used than it is. Gnavi deserves to have a bigger community than it has. Medium-term, Gnavi & its GNATCOM deserve to be extended to Windows Runtime = for Microsoft Store apps. Long-term, Gnavi deserve to be extended to nonMicrosoft GUIs. Imagine an A= da GUI framework that is Ada's superior competitor to C++'s wxWidgets. Oth= er than Gnavi & wxWidgets, none of the other GUI frameworks (e.g., Qt) call= the OS's native widgets, but rather paint visually-similar emulations ther= eof.