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From: Steffen Huber <steffen.huber@gmx.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Bye-bye Ada ?
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 16:19:13 +0100
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Jan-Uwe Finck wrote:
> 
> Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@t-online.de> wrote:
> >
> > I'm still missing Ada applications at all (in the public). I never
> > heard about a CD-burning app in Ada, nor of an .wav or .bmp manipulation
> > app, nor something else (except GNAT and GVD). If there is not the _one_
> > killer app, is this a reason for not having _anything_ in Ada?
> 
> Well, at least a CD-burning software exists. although not under
> the usual OS', but under Risc OS (http://www.riscos.com and .org)
> called CDBurn (http://www.huber-net.de/cdburn.htm),

Thanks for your plug, however I fear that there will be very few people who
have even heard if RISC OS in this newsgroup.

> the author mentions his use of Ada on his website here
> (http://www.huber-net.de/ada.htm), unfortunately in german.

English variant available at http://www.huber-net.de/ada_e.htm

However, it is quite old and outdated now. So much work to do, so
little time.

[snip]

Stefen

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