Re: += in ada

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Libraries are a very important thing - but maybe not the only thing. 
Thanks for the vote of confidence though. ;-)

I think some advantage could come from trying to identify some market 
segment and bending over backwards to give them what they want. 
Something a little less vague than "High Reliability - Long Lived 
Systems" - although that's not a bad start. Something along the line of 
"Cable TV" or "Cellular Phones" or "GUI Based Business PC Apps". 
Libraries that catered to some problem domain - along with whatever 
other support tools or language adaptations might fit with that - could 
go a long way in establishing a larger base for Ada.

We can pretty much scratch "Embedded Systems" off the list given that 
"Other" ranks higher than "Ada" in surveys of computer languages used 
for embedded systems. I think they're too entirely unimpressed with Ada 
(to put it poklitely) to come back any time soon. If we wanted to win 
that crowd, the way to do it is get the language bigger in some other 
sector such that there is more growth of support structures needed to 
make it attractive for an embedded system.

MDC


Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> 
> Libraries is the way. I am 100% with the CAL idea.
> 


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