GNAVI is an

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visual software

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that is composed of three major portions: GWindows GUI framework, GNATCOM ActiveX/COM framework, and GWenerator code generator. The inspiration for GNAVI is

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and

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, where the

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-family

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is utilized as a syntactically similar substitute for Delphi's

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. GNAVI is licensed under the

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, allowing to release binaries without the source code. One of the goals of the GNAVI community to promote the use of Ada among wider programming audiences by demonstrating that

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standard Ada (i.e.,

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) has many of the ease-of-programming qualities that have been attributed to proprietary Object Pascal. GNAVI for

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offers features comparable to Delphi and Visual Basic including the use of

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controls and the ability to interface with Microsoft's

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and Sun's

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. As of 2009, GNAVI was also being ported to

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and other

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s. The GNAVI website had seen no activity or releases for four and a half years, from December 2004 until early 2009, but on 14 March 2009, the community announced that it has resumed development and multiple versions have been released since then.

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