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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.236.25.99 with SMTP id y63mr7792148yhy.50.1412795530635; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 12:12:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.18.161 with SMTP id 30mr34772qgf.31.1412795530615; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 12:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!s7no1391499qap.0!news-out.google.com!q8ni67qal.1!nntp.google.com!dc16no1510307qab.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 12:12:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7a86a346-78f6-4da3-9030-f594a4ee7c18@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=50.138.108.48; posting-account=yiWntAoAAAC1KqC_shmxJYv07B9l6LNU NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.138.108.48 References: <7a86a346-78f6-4da3-9030-f594a4ee7c18@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <32c48afc-00b5-4add-b9a6-aca91dbcd2d3@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Ada 2005 Language Designer From: David Botton Injection-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 19:12:10 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 1941 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3925515320 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:22253 Date: 2014-10-08T12:12:10-07:00 List-Id: > Actually, I think it played some role. I know it played a huge role. I know from trying to push Ada at the time. I= had a working VB like environment (Gnavi, which gwindows and gnatcom are = part) including Active X controls and time after time I couldn't get people= to even consider it based on that alone. Some were familiar with OO in som= e of the scripting languages and so could deal with out having a Class like= notation, but not having Object.Method made everything look clunky to them= . Yes, thy were not enlightened folk, they were trench Applications developer= s, but they are the majority.... This time around we'll get em' David Botton