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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:44:36 +0100
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Markus E Leypold schrieb:

> As it is, as a hobbyist, you still have to collect stuff from all over
> the internet (libraries, documents and some stuff is really not
> documented at all). And I still think that making it easy for
> beginners (people who learn their first language and don't know much
> about operating systems, linking and how all that fits together) is
> absolutely necessary to achieve popularity.

Exacly the problem The GNU Ada project [1] set out to solve.

Reminder: The project is not about providing a compiler! It is about 
providing compiler and librarys.

Only we are short of manpower.

Martin

[1] http://gnuada.sf.net