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,c1400b61b3f80c1e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.in2p3.fr!in2p3.fr!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed2.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!news.cc.tut.fi!not-for-mail From: Tero Koskinen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country? Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:04:58 +0200 Message-ID: <20080319210458.3cdebc1e.tero.koskinen@iki.fi> References: <87d4pr6413.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <47e0fc15$0$89167$157c6196@dreader1.cybercity.dk> <33b9613e-2279-4293-84e4-4942eb856a2b@s8g2000prg.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 1205953498 9199 195.148.53.154 (19 Mar 2008 19:04:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tut.fi NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:04:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 2.4.5 (GTK+ 2.12.7; i386-unknown-openbsd4.3) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20491 Date: 2008-03-19T21:04:58+02:00 List-Id: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Thomas wrote: > > Ada needs [...] > > interesting open source projects, > > Ada is peculiar in that there are few projects but a high proportion > of them are "interesting". There are about a hundred projects on > SourceForge, for example. One has to search for them. Although, most of the projects are meant for other Ada developers. There are very few Ada projects for "normal" users. It would be nice to see few more open source games or desktop apps written in Ada. > > thriving communities > > Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I think comp.lang.ada is a triving > community. #Ada IRC-channel at Freenode network is also relatively active. -- Tero Koskinen - http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/