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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1479b753518e2325 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular? Date: 1999/01/21 Message-ID: <36a78291.328470@news.pacbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 435421037 References: <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.pbi.net 916947796 206.170.2.142 (Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:43:16 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:43:16 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >Now, if a web server can be written in Ada, and GPL'ed and become famouse >for quality, speed, etc.., this is one way to make Ada more known, as many >pepole and ISP's, will download it, with source, and install it, use it, etc.. As Robert Leif says "the way to make Ada popular is to make Ada programmers visibly rich". Perhaps if you can write a web server in Ada that is so obviously an improvement on any existing web server that everyone wants it, that would also be good advertising. But if it was so much better that people would even pay a bunch, *that* would really be convincing. IMHO