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: 11232c,877ba3d67e73c6c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-11 16:21:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.online.be!isdnet!btnet-peer1!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: tony Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:20:50 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Message-ID: <3CB61A78.271280C1@btinternet.com> References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: host217-34-78-148.in-addr.btopenworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: knossos.btinternet.com 1018567250 17457 217.34.78.148 (11 Apr 2002 23:20:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:20:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Accept-Language: en X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8-26mdk i586) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22395 misc.misc:6259 Date: 2002-04-11T23:20:50+00:00 List-Id: I was a student in 1987 when there was no ada open source. Ada in the military is a waste of Ada. A mix of a clearly understandable language with clearly understandable perverse human objectives. Open source with Ada however is a mixing of both write once and use around the world components. The amount of ada software now being produced open source amongst a community with no set objectives, no set one way of thinking, no hidden agenda, no management I think is astounding. Doomed to the horse calvalry is just a bad analogy I think because, Ada is doing very well in the open source community (against all odds) which is the true test. The true test of technology is in the open source community and not in the temporary distraction of the US military which appears to define the success of its technology in how many third world people you can murder or subjugate by pressing or not pressing a button.