From: HNBeck@t-online.de (Hans N. Beck)
Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular?
Date: 1999/01/21
Date: 1999-01-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36A77F86.B04BC986@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: F5x5wA.613.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com
Hello,:
> bill_1@nospam.com wrote:
>
> : lets face it. Ada is not used much in commerical sector.
>
> Well, this depends on the domain you are talking about.
> If you said commercial safety critical systems (commercial
> aviation, nuclear power, high-speed rail transport, etc.), you would
> probably be wrong. If you said commercial business systems,
> I would certainly agree.
>
> : What can be done to improve the situation?
>
> : A very busy area these days is software development in the internet:
> : Web servers and Application servers.
> : ...
>
> : silly idea? what do you think?
>
> Building a web server or an application server in Ada seems like
> a very reasonable thing to do. Building components in Ada that run
> on top of one of the existing application servers also makes
> sense.
>
> Note that the ORBExpress/Ada CORBA ORB from Objective
> Information Systems (www.ois.com) is written in Ada 95,
> and performs many of the most critical functions of
> an application server. I am quite sure OIS is not going the
> open source route, but feel free to organize and get such
> an effort going that way yourself. Using one of the Ada95-to-Java
> compilers would make a lot of sense for part of this effort as well.
>
> : Bill.
>
If I talk to other about writing GPL' ed software in Ada, the eyes grow
bigger and bigger. To my experience, the old story about Ada (complicated,
complicated, oversized, complicated, by the way, what is it ?) you can
find
in many peoples mind. There must be examples of open source software
projects,
where the code i.e. the problem and its solution vote for Ada itself. If
that can be
done by rewriting solutions which exist anyway like web servers ? I would
prefer,
that some of the new elements for the toolset GNU/LINUX be written in
Ada
before they exist in C. Example: I'm think about an OODBMS system,
realized
like a library as guile, to plug via CORBA in GNOME or KDE environement.
somethink like this. The story about the complicated oversized non-modern
because
leightweight object design Ada must be killed by (new) examples ;-)
Greetings
Hans
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-21 0:00 how to make Ada more popular? bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck [this message]
1999-01-21 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-23 0:00 ` micro_ada
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Lack of Ada Windows books (was: " Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-01-25 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-01-27 0:00 ` kna
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-25 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-30 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-24 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Making ADA More Popular Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-01-27 0:00 ` joel
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
1999-01-28 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` how to make Ada more popular? Donald Duck
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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