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: Gautier Subject: Re: Desirability of C++ Date: 2000/04/17 Message-ID: <38FB4FA4.DCDCCAD7@maths.unine.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 612323542 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> <38FAF5FB.5D27F1AF@icn.siemens.de> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: 17 Apr 2000 19:53:40 +0100, mac13-32.unine.ch Organization: Maths - Uni =?iso-8859-1?Q?Neuch=E2tel?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Alfred Hilscher wrote: > 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) True - but the Web is a chance to change it progressively, if you want... Do you have a few nights to spend? Do you wish to make use of the expressive power of Ada and the quality of a well-known free compiler to produce a useful and/or funny piece of code ? Do it, post it on the Web, drop a line on a few related newsgroups and it might _have_ an effect. An ephemeral one, citations in Webzines. A long-term one: some re-usable pieces of code. There is no need for a huge number of programmers nor leading-edge, "pro" software. E.g. my little 3D beginner experiments in Ada were "spontaneously" cited in the following webzines: http://www.vis-sim.org/ , http://www.cfxweb.net/downloads.shtml , http://www.flipcode.com/ (search "Ada" in archives). A fortiori, if people are better equipped (3D cards, GL/DirectX etc.) it could be even more interesting! I'm sure that with some efforts like that (e.g. Pascal's Web server) one can have more effects than just discussing in c.l.a ;-) And since programming should not be a religious, abstract subject, what about providing sources straight before the eyes of the Web surfer, like... http://www.neubert.net/Flacodes/FLACodes.html http://fedelma.astro.univie.ac.at/web/logiciel/swing/info.html http://www.swin.edu.au/astronomy/pbourke/projection/conrec/ada/ http://members.xoom.com/gdemont/lz__adb.htm http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/gdemont/uza_html/index.htm (...) - as well as (g)zipped versions of course... The gnathtml.pl tool is there that! _____________________________________________ Gautier -- http://members.xoom.com/gdemont/