Re: Improving Ada's image

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

If Ada doesn't fix its core problems, changing the name won't make any 
difference. I think at the heart of its troubles is perhaps a cultural 
attitude that tends to work against it. We tend to get all wrapped up in 
various technical concerns and don't think about how it affects the net 
result. We want to write "perfect" software (not a bad goal) but neglect 
the concerns of the people who have to produce and sell an end product. 
They need things we're not giving them - or at least not addressing them 
as well as they can get elsewhere. Unless the focus shifts to one that 
truly emphasizes the needs of that end user and it gets more in line 
with making Ada a significant benefit to them and addresses their needs 
better, changing the name won't help much.

MDC


Bj�rn Persson wrote:
> I think Ada needs to be rebranded to get away from its disrepute. From 
> my - admittedly not very experienced - point of view, far too many 
> people seem to know Ada solely from the phrase "Oh no! Not Ada!". Free 
> software started to get accepted when it was rebranded as Open Source. 
> Maybe Ada 200Y should be given another name. Call it Ceylon for example, 
> and introduce it as a brand new, modern, object oriented, Unicode 
> enabled language.
> 
> Abandoning the name "Ada" would be a very small price to pay. I 
> certainly don't care what the language is called as long as it's a good 
> language.
> 


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