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-Thread: 103376,ae0c567a4b40a4ee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:45:39 +0200 From: Gautier User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada bindings to Linux GUI toolkits ? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.203.184.52 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.203.184.52 Message-ID: <44a65258$1_4@news.bluewin.ch> X-Trace: news.bluewin.ch 1151750744 62.203.184.52 (1 Jul 2006 12:45:44 +0200) Organization: Bluewin AG Complaints-To: abuse@bluewin.ch X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!130.59.10.21.MISMATCH!kanaga.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.ip-plus.net!newsfeed.ip-plus.net!news.bluewin.ch!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5386 Date: 2006-07-01T12:45:39+02:00 List-Id: M E Leypold: > In the case of Ada that means in my eyes that Ada just missed train > and cannot be counted under the main stream open source languages any > more. This has nothing to do with technical merits (which are high) > but with purely practical considerations. - Are you supposing that Ada has ever been a main stream language ? - In the software world, it is no problem to miss some trains, there is always a new train after. If needed, you can invent the train yourself, do a good marketing and pretend it is the first train ever. Ask Bill Gates for some success stories in that respect! Cheers, Gautier ______________________________________________________________ Ada programming -- http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/gdm/gsoft.htm NB: For a direct answer, e-mail address on the Web site!