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: 1999/01/24 Message-ID: <36aac503.36011312@news.pacbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 436241975 References: <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com> <36a78291.328470@news.pacbell.net> <78a342$ses$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.pbi.net 917162132 206.170.2.102 (Sat, 23 Jan 1999 23:15:32 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 23:15:32 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >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.