Re: Multi-platform software development
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Preben Randhol wrote:
> I recommend that you use Ada 95 and GtkAda.
Yes, Ada 95 is a nice language.
> The app I'm developing just
> needed to be compiled under Windows to work. It is being developed under
> Linux of course. Ada 95 is highly portable. C and C++ are not.
I think that well written C code is portable. Many projects deve
loped under GPL proove it.
> Ada is the most powerful
What do you mean by "powerful"?
> object-oriented general purpose programming
> language. It has built-in concurrency, built-in exception handling,
Ada exception handling is very limited when compared to C++ or
Java exception model.
> built-in generic templates, built-in distributed execution,
How good is Ada 95 in dynamic distributed execution? (when we do
not know where are partitions of distributed program prior to
running it)
> standard
> and defacto standard interfaces to other programming languages and
> libaries,
Is there an standard interface for database connection like JDBC
is for Java? Are there any libraries for most popular commercial
and non-commercial database management systems?
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Regards,
Andrzej
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