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From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak@uol.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do?
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 11:15:27 -0200
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Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <3A53CB9E.EA7CF86C@uol.com.br>,
>   Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak@uol.com.br> wrote:
> 
> > The idea of games seems interesting, an OS seems to me too far
> > fetching
> 
> Don't make the assumption that a game would be simpler than an OS, just
> because its more fun or something. Today's popular games are *huge*
> undertakings. There are some game projects out there that have slipped
> schedules enough to make the DoD blanch.

I did not mean this, but rather if we could 'prove' we can do game
programming in Ada easier/better, it would be (probably) easier to
attract more programmers (specially hobbists which eventually would turn
in professionals) to Ada.

Game programming today is indeed a very complex and competive packages
now require much more than a thousand person-hours of programming to get
them done!

OTOH, if we get a popular game written in Ada (be it
free/shareware/commercial) it would help the spreading of the language.

Cesar