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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-09 13:29:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B4A13B0.11BAD466@west.raytheon.com> From: Jerry Petrey <"jdpetrey"@west.raytheon.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-CCK-MCD CSC;Raytheon (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is ada dead? References: <3B460DA9.C2965042@ix.netcom.com> <9ff447f2.0107061757.34ca0723@posting.google.com> <3B475678.C582735D@worldnet.att.net> <3b478165_3@news3.prserv.net> <3b48d207_1@news3.prserv.net> <3B490751.38523577@worldnet.att.net> <9icg1p$kpi$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 13:27:28 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.83.38 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 994710578 147.24.83.38 (Mon, 09 Jul 2001 15:29:38 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 15:29:38 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9689 Date: 2001-07-09T13:27:28-07:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > In article <9icg1p$kpi$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... > >what is the "right" decision WRT languages. His techno-dweebs say "Java is > >the hip thing!" and he's got to believe them, so migration is made that way. > > > >IMHO, if we want to sell Ada, it has to be from that grass-roots level. Get > > I see two possible ways to increase Ada's "hipness". One would be a massive > marketing campaign, like Sun did for Java. I don't think anyone in the Ada > community has that kind of dough to throw around. > > The other is to start developing lots of "cool" stuff with it. *That*, I think > we can do. Right now the best example of this that I know of is GVD > (http://libre.act-europe.fr/gvd/ ), but perhaps I'm a werido for thinking > debuggers are cool. :-) > > --- > T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html > home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com You mean you need a debugger with Ada? :-) Jerry -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Jerry Petrey -- Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Navigation, Guidance, & Control -- Raytheon Missile Systems - Member Team Ada & Team Forth -- NOTE: please remove in email address to reply -----------------------------------------------------------------------------