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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a0be06fbc0dd71f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!j78g2000hsd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: ahab Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 00:19:11 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <0a28b562-2e93-4fc5-8a1a-e2c7b82c50e2@j78g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> References: <20071229040639.f753f982.coolzone@it.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.219.24.128 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1199866752 7407 127.0.0.1 (9 Jan 2008 08:19:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:19:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j78g2000hsd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=12.219.24.128; posting-account=S67IvgoAAABaA2pwHNeisj7qPiQ7QwCH User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071004 Iceweasel/2.0.0.8 (Debian-2.0.0.8-1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19287 Date: 2008-01-09T00:19:11-08:00 List-Id: On Jan 4, 2:45 am, Agyaras wrote: > ... > 5) Lack of libraries and frameworks. This is due to the unpopularity of > the language ... I wonder if something like a summer of code for Ada would be appropriate. Haskell did something similar. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/wiki There are plenty of Ada organizations out there that could possibly sponsor something like that. (I've always been meaning to finish fixing the file IO for XML/Ada too...)