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: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-07 01:43:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4073BF1E.6010901@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: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> <406EB6D2.8030801@noplace.com> <87d66pyw1g.fsf@insalien.org> <406EEC35.7040109@noplace.com> <874qs0zvy1.fsf@insalien.org> <40714C98.90601@noplace.com> <1073gv22t969q5a@corp.supernews.com> <40729B9D.30906@noplace.com> <1076000ef5oj06f@corp.supernews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:43:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.0.206 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1081327406 209.165.0.206 (Wed, 07 Apr 2004 01:43:26 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 01:43:26 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6801 Date: 2004-04-07T08:43:26+00:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote: > > Maybe that's one of the opportunities Marin has been harping on. > Well, yeah. Pick some reasonably large domain of computer programming and see what you can do to make life there just duck soup provided one uses Ada. Like, for example, networking apps. Could Ada say "Let's focus in on people who blip bits up and down a wire and give them everything and anything that they need to make their job 10 times easier than if they used any other language?" Like start by providing some library support for stuff like TCP & UDP? But don't stop there because people can get that just about anywhere. Give them stuff like multi-language support, common internet protocols, web page support, etc. Remake Ada into "The Internet Language" - not by changing the language but by changing what you package with it and how you talk about its future direction. Or we could conduct business as usual and rearrange a little syntax and semantics and keep doing what took Ada from being a widespread language that had the eyes of lots of major corporations and thousands of developers and turned it into a niche language that "also ran" in the computer language marketplace. That's been working real well for us, hasn't it? MDC -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================