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On Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 8:59:55 AM UTC-8, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote=
:
> Many "modern" languages are adding "new" features, which are
> allready in Ada for 10's of years, Hummm.... May be Ada
> needs a better marketing department :)
>=20
> --Nasser

What Ada really needs is to be used in fancy/cool/fun applications (e.g. ga=
mes). Better marketing for the same old arguments of safety critical softwa=
re, reduced development/maintenance cost, software integrity, etc (which ar=
e ALL still very important and worth promoting) doesn't capture the interes=
t of the younger generation of software developers. It just turns them away=
, if not put them to sleep. (Projects like Gnoga are definitely a good star=
t..)

I have no doubt that Ada's exposure to the masses would have been greatly h=
elped if people could make iOS apps with Ada when iPhones first became popu=
lar. Still no iOS apps in Ada (as far as I know)... =3D( Yes, you can make =
Android apps, but are there any that will make the general mass go "Wow!". =
Also, iOS is more popular...

I REALLY wish I could be more proactive on this topic, but life responsibil=
ities and reality continue to prevent me from allocating enough time to con=
tribute anything to the Ada community...Maybe one day? Sigh...for now, I am=
 stuck using an inferior one letter named language in a company full of ant=
i-Ada software engineers...=3D'(