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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bffcdbd805329ff8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-24 15:08:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!paloalto-snh1.gtei.net!lsanca1-snf1!news.gtei.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B86C435.6A4B2119@earthlink.net> From: "Marc A. Criley" Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and Internet stuff References: <3B86A962.33CFA1A8@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 22:08:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.252.123.38 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 998690896 158.252.123.38 (Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:08:16 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:08:16 PDT X-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:05:33 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12398 Date: 2001-08-24T22:08:16+00:00 List-Id: Darren New wrote: > > I'm wondering how many people use Ada for Internet things. Do people > write servers in Ada, or clients, or libraries? I note a lack of things > like XML, MIME, base64, etc on AdaPower. If I started building such > libraries, would anyone care? Would anyone use them? Just > wondering... > > (FWIW, I'm good at internet stuff, and a novice at Ada, but I think I'd > like Ada a lot.) Please do delve into writing internet stuff in Ada! From time to time I've whined about Ada developers announcing they're going write Yet Another Data Structures collection, while there's a whole lot of areas out there where Ada has no software presence. Dave Botton did wonders with making Ada much easier to employ in the MS Windows environment; there's plenty of opportunity for someone to do the same with Internet technologies. Marc A. Criley