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: 103376,54c513170bafd693 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Alfred Hilscher Subject: Re: Desirability of C++ Date: 2000/04/17 Message-ID: <38FAF5FB.5D27F1AF@icn.siemens.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 612188977 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <01HW.B4BFC2820005B06B08A24140@news.pacbell.net> <20000204073443.24976.00001288@ng-ci1.aol.com> <87euk0$c93$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <01HW.B4C1346100072D2408A24140@news.pacbell.net> <949867976.281549@the-rowan.albatross.co.nz> <8766v93w66.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <38E8C81A.AA62CF4C@HiWAAY.net> <7EA1B852F5D4D8C6.26EEE9181C80F0DF.0161EA2D9C353253@lp.airnews.net> <01HW.B51C1B6E00F41C2D04BB51B0@news.pacbell.net> <38F796B2.A99A206A@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <38F7A27A.4F7729FA@raytheon.com> <38F7DA95.A9E1F5@quadruscorp.com> <8d9s0a$62r6@ftp.kvaerner.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Siemens AG Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Tarjei T. Jensen" wrote: > If I owned the company I would offer students prizes if they contributed useful > software to the Ada community. The idea would be to organize small/medium > projects which universities could use and then offer prizes for the best entry. > Prizes could be a small grant/computer hardware or some other desirables. > Perhaps also a contribution to the university, department or library. This > would depend on their situation. In some parts of the world, just getting used I think the Ada-Deutschland group do such things, but it seems to me that this has no success. > Lastly, a message from the campaign for mor technical Ada articles: You want > Ada programmers? Write those articles in Dr. Dobbs and get Ada noticed. If > there is an occational Ada related article in Dr. Dobbs then a lot of the FUD > we are used to would go away. > > The point is that we want to be able to say: Ada a dying language???? Just last > year there were articles in Dr Dobbs about Ada projects. That is exactly what I think. "Ada" should be omnipresent. But there is a vicious circle: a) There are no Ada articles, so people do not know about Ada. b) People do not know about Ada, so magazines are not interessted in Ada-articles. c) goto a)