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Corey Minyard <[log in to unmask]>
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Team Ada: Ada Programming Language Advocacy (83 & 95)
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Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:50:56 -0600
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There is AdaSL (http://adasl.sourceforge.net/) that has a few thing 
beyond container libraries, but I haven't done much to it in a long time 
as I don't do any Ada programming any more.

-Corey

Rick Duley wrote:
> Hi Teamers
>
> Sorry I was not very specific.  The accusation I hear is based on the 
> fact that the JAVA SDK comes with a huge collection of pre-defined 
> classes; some for GUI work, most for a vast range of functions.  Our 
> freshmen select from this collection and combine their selections in 
> other classes.  This is called Object-oriented Programming :(
>
> The accusation is that Ada has no such collection (actually, most 
> people believe that OOP is impossible in Ada).
>
> I have downloaded CLAW which holds out promise for GUI work although 
> it lacks documentation.  Also, the current GNAT compiler is not listed 
> among its compatibilities.  GtkAda works but its implementation for 
> Windows appears to be something of an afterthought berining consequent 
> restrictions.  My experience of Booch components is that they are 
> subroutines rather than classes.
>
> What else is around?
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Rick Duley
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>
>
>> From: Chris Sparks <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: Chris Sparks <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Class Library for Ada OOP
>> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:07:32 -0700
>>
>> What exactly are you looking for?
>>
>> Chris
>>> Hi Teamers
>>>
>>> One of the Ada-criticisms I frequently endure is that, unlike JAVA,
>>> Ada has no OOP libraries to draw on.
>>>
>>> Are there some?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>> Rick Duley
>>> School of Engineering Science
>>> Murdoch University, Perth,
>>> Western Australia                    .-_|\
>>> http://www.freewebs.com/rickduley/  /     \
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