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 autolearn=ham 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!news4.google.com!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed.sovam.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!news.cc.tut.fi!not-for-mail From: Tero Koskinen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:58:41 +0200 Message-ID: <20080111215841.1d5fb8a7.tero.koskinen@iki.fi> References: <20071229040639.f753f982.coolzone@it.dk> <13oe680qard6u2d@corp.supernews.com> <7499726a-c429-470a-9fd3-8e274cc008fe@q39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip154.otanner14.opintanner.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.cc.tut.fi 1200081521 22227 195.148.53.154 (11 Jan 2008 19:58:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tut.fi NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:58:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 2.4.5 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-unknown-openbsd4.2) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19327 Date: 2008-01-11T21:58:41+02:00 List-Id: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:49:11 -0800 (PST) Maciej Sobczak wrote: > Ada lacks libraries. [snip] > I don't think that this problem can be easily solved. Comprehensive > libraries cannot be written a single person and for obvious reasons > there will never be a huge community of enthusiasts willing to spend > their time building something new. How about submitting project ideas to software engineering project courses running at various universities? A team of university students many times accepts your project if the proposal is somewhat sane and they get a relatively easy way to complete their course. (Little bonus for a well done project might help also.) A suitable project could be for example "Thick Ada 95 binding for MySQL database client library. Basic Ada, C, and database skills required." Search for "software engineering project course" reveals courses like http://www.cs.utah.edu/classes/cs4500/ http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/tklab/courses/521479S/ http://www.une.edu.au/courses/2008/units/COMP395 etc. Pick one near you and contact the lecturer. -- Tero Koskinen - http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/