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: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" Subject: Re: Desirability of C++ Date: 2000/05/01 Message-ID: <390DF15E.233B7D1E@online.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 617996478 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <01HW.B4BFC2820005B06B08A24140@news.pacbell.net> <87euk0$c93$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <01HW.B4C1346100072D2408A24140@news.pacbell.net> <949867976.281549@the-rowan.albatross.co.nz> <8766v93w66.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <38E8C81A.AA62CF4C@HiWAAY.net> <01HW.B51C1B6E00F41C2D04BB51B0@news.pacbell.net> <38F796B2.A99A206A@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <38F7A27A.4F7729FA@raytheon.com> <8eclae$afj$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <4F706057FEE2A550.BF5FE19AE279EFCD.A55706B3F9D07043@lp.airnews.net> <8eiv08$820$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net> <390D001C.7433140B@netwood.net> <390D58F9.7CC64B85@maths.unine.ch> <390D97DC.241E7CCD@netwood.net> <8ekfoo$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu> <87og6qnld8.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <8ekn33$rim$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@online.no X-Trace: news1.online.no 957215095 130.67.235.181 (Mon, 01 May 2000 23:04:55 MET DST) Organization: Jensen programvareutvikling MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 23:04:55 MET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > I wonder if there's a single piece of non-trivial free software > > written in Ada which is not Ada-related. Can you name one? > > That's *exactly* the situation that I think needs to be changed. When > (if) I get my thesis done and OpenToken in stable shape, I'll be looking > for just such a project to take on. But in the meantime, it would be > nice to see someone else make moves along this line. > > If I was looking to start one today, I think I'd go for a web browser. I > know there are tons of them, but there aren't that many out there that > are fully open source. Even fewer are cross-platform and GPL. The only > one I know of is Lynx. I think there is at least two web browsers for gnome. There is at least one on kde. I think the web server bit would be more profitable nut to crack. Apache and perl is the main competitor. Zope and python may be coming attractions. I think there could be done a lot of work on safety and optimization. It should be possible to improve safety quite a lot with simple means. It would also be nice to actually be able to read and understand the server source code. Safety is a big concern these days with web shops. If one can show off something that is reasonably safe the market is yours. Greetings,