Ada culture & pictures.

[chrismiller677@hotmail.com]

Why does the Ada community not use more pictures & graphics? Eh ?

Think about it - the whole Ada culture seems obsessed with text. Page
after page after page of boring text.

Perhaps it all stems from the text based Ada Language Reference manual?

Some examples :

 -  the 3rd instalment from John Barnes on www.adacore.com concerning
access types. 28 pages, no pictures. Likewise for the other
instalments. His iconic Programming in Ada series and High Integrity
Software book is similar.

- www.ada-auth.org. Home page, no pictures, all text. In fact I
couldn't find any pictures on the entire Web site. (Can anyone else?)

- www.adaworld.com. A rotating globe but otherwise all text.

- www.adapower.com. No pictures.

- www.adacore.com. OK, they did manage a screen, book & logo. It's a
start I suppose.

- Concurrency in Ada, Burns & Wellings. 390 pages, about 20 diagrams
many of which are similar.

- The holy grail. Ada 95 ref manual  & Standard Libraries. 543 pages. I
gave up looking, the closest I came was the hierarchy of language-
defined classes in section 3.2 12.

The point is that the Ada community has complained for years that,
despite the language being technically brilliant, that no one uses it.

Perhaps we are just putting our audience to sleep.

Maybe Microsoft were on to something when they chose "Visual" basic.

And so, with this textual note, I sign off...

Chris Miller.