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,be3749d096f8436b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Lao Xiao Hai Subject: Re: Suitability for small Windows projects Date: 2000/10/06 Message-ID: <39DE09DC.D63EF0BB@ix.netcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 678367203 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8qr809$cjj@newshost.fujitsu.com.au> <8qrs0i$kq2@newshost.fujitsu.com.au> <8qs469$pf1@news.kvaerner.com> X-Accept-Language: en X-Server-Date: 6 Oct 2000 17:25:22 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-06T17:25:22+00:00 List-Id: "Tarjei T. Jensen" wrote: > No reason to be surprised. Nobody in the Ada community except Richard Riehle > writes about Ada anywhere. You would probably have to threaten people with > serious physical injury in order to get them to write articles that makes Ada > visible outside "the congregation". On the other hand, we preach a lot to the > converted. This is Richard Riehle speaking. I appreciate the kind words about my articles concerning Ada. However, much credit should be given to others who have been writing and publishing articles over the years. Paul Pukite and Joyce Tokar come to mind immediately. For many years, Do-While Jones was a lone voice with detailed and entertaining articles regarding Ada. More recently, there was a piece in COTS Journal written by the Ada Product Manager at Green Hills Software. Others, including Tom Moran, have been published in Dr. Dobbs. Ben Brosgol and Ed Seidiwitz have kept the flame alive with their writing and their conference presentations. Many others whose names do not jump out at me in this moment have also contributed to the published Ada literature in periodicals. Another thing I am noticing is the increase in awareness of Ada at both computer conferences and in newly published books. For a while there was almost no mention of Ada. Lately, especially in books on real-time and embedded systems, I see more acknowledgement of Ada. In a little book on embedded systems from O'Reilly, the author even expresses a preference for Ada even though he illustrates his examples using C because of its popularity. He also has some unkind things to say about C++. In a recent comparative programming languages book, Programming Language Pragmatics (Kaufmann), the author is unusually fair regarding Ada. In Bob Binder's hefty tome on Object-Oriented Testing, Ada is one of the small set of languages selected for examples. This trend is encouraging. Instead of cheerleading articles about Ada, there is great value in seeing respected authors include it, matter-of-factly, in there discussions of larger issues. Editors of periodicals are more amenable to articles that describe solutions where Ada was the programming language. Almost no editor will choose an article that is simply promoting Ada. They will be fair if you have a viewpoint to share that has value to the computing community. Most will not reject a good article simply because you selected Ada for the solution. They will reject an article that is nothing more than Ada evangelism. There are so many exciting success stories out there that involve Ada. It would be great to see more of you crafting some of those stories into publishable articles. If you are unsure of your writing skills, enlist the help of a colleague who has good writing ability. Richard Riehle