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: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-07 05:18:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-05!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4024E5B1.6000708@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor (Was: why ada is so unpopular ?) References: <400A9B48.3060100@noplace.com> <400BD4B5.6000307@noplace.com> <400BDB7C.40100@noplace.com> <400D2150.6000705@noplace.com> <400E72F9.8060501@noplace.com> <100upo7ln5e3k59@corp.supernews.com> <401118FD.701@noplace.com> <40126B5E.8050205@noplace.com> <99wTb.4905$bp1.159188@news20.bellglobal.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 13:18:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.0.84 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1076159931 209.165.0.84 (Sat, 07 Feb 2004 05:18:51 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 05:18:51 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5310 Date: 2004-02-07T13:18:51+00:00 List-Id: Unfortunately, the resistance typically "fades" in the form of "Its just too hard for me to get my job done with Ada so I'll go switch to XYZ..." I think Ada tends to suffer from the mindset of "If the world doesn't want to fit into my software development theories, then so much the worse for the world." Everyone wants to avoid making Ada a messy hodgepodge of 'features' like one finds with C, but a little more focus on practical help to the average developer out there might go a long way. MDC Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > > The result of this discussion seems to suggest that most > are resisting the idea, for different reasons. So > be it. Maybe with time, resistance to the idea will fade > as more people try to address the practical problems that > Open Sourced projects face in Ada. One can hope ;-) > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================