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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a02:b388:: with SMTP id p8mr1079366jan.13.1553605517664; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 06:05:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a9d:5509:: with SMTP id l9mr21218661oth.195.1553605517091; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 06:05:17 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.gegeweb.eu!gegeweb.org!fdn.fr!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!209.85.166.216.MISMATCH!w126no188667ita.0!news-out.google.com!l81ni202itl.0!nntp.google.com!78no188276itl.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 06:05:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6b918556-b1ff-4cf9-a5c7-d5fd9b5b72c6@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=187.34.115.48; posting-account=TRgI1QoAAABSsYi-ox3Pi6N-JEKKU0cu NNTP-Posting-Host: 187.34.115.48 References: <6b918556-b1ff-4cf9-a5c7-d5fd9b5b72c6@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1a40fad3-ff41-4fce-b6df-3378ea0a67a2@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Make with Ada 2019 : DogRobot From: "Rego, P." Injection-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:05:17 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:55969 Date: 2019-03-26T06:05:16-07:00 List-Id: > Just taking a quick look at your project documentation, it is a tremendou= s work completed just in two weeks. Therefore, this project is worth to stu= dy in details. Congratulations and thank you for sharing it. >=20 > Anh Vo Now that the winners are chosen (3 weeks late from original date), the firs= t place is a 40 LINES OF CODE project. 1/3 of the project description is to= tally unrelevant (explaining how light is used in Photography, Astronomy an= d Architecture), and another big part explaining unrelated facts to the pro= ject (how a LDR works??). No sw design, no system architecture??? I don't q= uestion the validity of this project, regarding the fact that it is ALMOST = NOTHING OF Ada for a "Make with Ada" contest, it is ok in general DIY space= . Is the intention of this contest to transform the use of Ada into a junk = of "don't know how to make with Ada" like other languages are used in some = newborn makerspaces. The 3rd winner was implemented mostly in Python according to the project de= scription, and the Ada code is not available (actually no code whatsoever).= The 2nd place seems fare.=20 Also my own project probably was not good enough to win the contest, no pro= blem at all with this, but please, judges are nuts this year. Mine had a co= mplete architecture and 900 LOC among several artifacts, and I wouldn't thi= nk it would win. Not talking about the 3 weeks of delay without any satisfa= tion to the participants, which is unaceptable. I am very sorry for this outburst, but I couldn't not keep it quiet. I was = naive thinking this contest was serious. It could be a good opportunity to= share the other communities that making software with Ada is to make diffe= rent and better software. So I am very ashamed of having participated this = edition. It was really a waste of time and (very much) personal effort. Pablo.