Re: Binding or not binding

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:25:50 +0100, Pascal Obry wrote:

Another example, do you think it would have been wise to recode the Gtk+
library in Ada... certainly not :)

I wouldn't be so sure. In a long term perspective it certainly makes sense.
Fighting GTK+ costs too much time. GUI libraries have too much influence on
software design to leave them outside Ada. If Ada only had a quasi-standard
GUI library, portable, task-safe, designed for and in Ada...

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