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,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-18 08:02:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community Date: 18 Apr 2002 08:02:10 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0204180702.3f703c23@posting.google.com> References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <5ee5b646.0204170529.beaf045@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0204171040.33abd3c3@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1019142130 14564 127.0.0.1 (18 Apr 2002 15:02:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Apr 2002 15:02:10 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22729 Date: 2002-04-18T15:02:10+00:00 List-Id: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) wrote in message news:<4519e058.0204171040.33abd3c3@posting.google.com>... > dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote in message news:<5ee5b646.0204170529.beaf045@posting.google.com>... > > I suggest people spend less time in uninformed discussions on the future of > > Ada use, and more time in contributing to the technical base :-) > > Damn straight. (misc.misc trimmed) I felt I should do more than just a "me too" on this. I've been hanging out in c.l.a. for about 8 years now, and I got sick of the "Ada is dying" doom-and-gloom talk after about the 3rd Greg Ahnorian post I read. After 8 years of supposedly declining usage, there would be no one using it today but 3 kids and a monkey if those folks were all right. Instead it seems the Ada community is more healthy than ever before. No one is still being "forced" to use it and there's no DoD sugar-daddy around bankrolling projects any more, yet there are all sorts of wonderful new projects and initiatives comming out on what seems like a daily basis, from both companies and volunteers. Every language has its detractors that love to believe, no matter what the truth of the matter is, that it is just about to shrivel up and die. For whatever reason, Ada has always had more than its share of such people. I think that Ada's doom has been mindlessly predicted so much for so long that lots of otherwise sensible people have started to believe it. Its high time we quit listening. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html