From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular?
Date: 1999/01/24
Date: 1999-01-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36aac503.36011312@news.pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 78a342$ses$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
>I think you'd need to pick a niche that isn't being well filled right now.
What we need is new, improved things written in Ada - not just old
ones rewritten and made GPL.
Nothing wrong with redoing old things carefully, or making things
GPL, but neither is going to be noticed by a really large number of
people. So I'd put the talents and skill to work on new things with a
bigger visibility.
For every person admiring the improved robustness of the Ada
rewritten version of something, there will be 10 who instead see "slow
to code and late to market". Given the relative numbers of Ada and C
programmers, there's going to be a lot more GPLed stuff in C than Ada
for the foreseeable future, so Ada is unlikely to become the leading
GPL language.
There are a lot of software managers who need to see that an app
written in Ada can be first to market, and there are a lot of
customers who would latch onto "Ada inside" if it truly indicated
greater robustness than the typical C app.
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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 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
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 [this message]
1999-01-24 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Kees Serier
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
1999-01-21 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
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 ` bill_1
1999-01-30 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
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
1999-01-22 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 ` 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
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
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 ` Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-01-27 0:00 ` joel
1999-01-28 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` how to make Ada more popular? Donald Duck
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
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