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,c2318591037235d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,c2318591037235d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-15 12:54:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.54.64.131!news100.image.dk!news000.worldonline.dk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C925F92.1C9A6A77@pea.dk> From: Poul-Erik Andreasen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i586) X-Accept-Language: da, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: periodicity References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:54:42 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.237.11.74 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@wol.dk X-Trace: news000.worldonline.dk 1016225683 213.237.11.74 (Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:54:43 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:54:43 MET Organization: Customer of Tiscali A/S Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21308 misc.misc:5744 Date: 2002-03-15T21:54:42+01:00 List-Id: Kent Paul Dolan wrote: > > Nice to see I can come back to comp.lang.ada after an absense of months, > and find exactly the same subjects still/again being discussed. > > How about instead of focusing on the future of Ada, and how it compares > or contrasts with every language on the planet, more useful efforts > focus on the present of Ada, and making it more full of good libraries > and freeware tools so that it will _have_ a future. It is sad to me > that as long as Ada has been around there still isn't enough substantive > discussion to have split off a diversity of forums(*) similar to the > more commercially successful and sought after programming languages. > This is, after all, a language much older than Java, 2/3rds as old as > C, over 40% as old as Fortran by now; why is half the posting volume > still full of new language angst and defensiveness? I can follow your point of view, but maybe it is a question about angle. resetly there have been an performanse argue about Ada against Fortran77. If The quetioner instaed haed made a question like:" how do i performace optimize this code" he migth have recieved a lot of RTFM like ansvers. There are som very special mecanims in usenet, i. e. If you want too be sure to get a good response, you can have a friend to make a deliberatly wrong response, then things will accellerate. -- - Poul-Erik Andreasen Hvis du mangler nogen til noget eller du kan noget for nogen. http://linux-freelance.pea.dk