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 Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.germany.com!feeder2.news.saunalahti.fi!newsfeed3.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: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:02:43 +0200 Message-ID: <20080325200243.8aac9205.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> <20080319210458.3cdebc1e.tero.koskinen@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip154.otanner14.opintanner.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: news.cc.tut.fi 1206468163 11191 195.148.53.154 (25 Mar 2008 18:02:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tut.fi NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:02:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 2.4.5 (GTK+ 2.12.7; i386-unknown-openbsd4.3) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20568 Date: 2008-03-25T20:02:43+02:00 List-Id: On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:57:30 +0100 Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > Tero Koskinen a =E9crit : > > 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. > Like this, for example? http://www.chaumetsoftware.com/en/index.htm Yes, something like that. > It does not show on the page, but it is fully written in Ada (was=20 > announced on the french Ada news). Not really open source either, but I=20 > think it is nice to also see people making money with Ada :-) My idea of open source Ada projects targeted for end users was that they could "force" more Ada stuff into distributions and make Ada more popular in that way. For example, a decent GtkAda application could attract users who would then demand the application and the GtkAda library to be bundled with their favourite Linux distribution. --=20 Tero Koskinen - http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/