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: 2004-04-08 11:48:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsrout1.ntli.net!news.ntli.net!newspeer1-win.server.ntli.net!newsfe3-win.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040208) 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <67hdc.658$D%6.484@newsfe3-win.server.ntli.net> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 19:50:03 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.107.63.68 X-Trace: newsfe3-win.server.ntli.net 1081450050 81.107.63.68 (Thu, 08 Apr 2004 18:47:30 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 18:47:30 GMT Organization: NTL Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6863 Date: 2004-04-08T19:50:03+01:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote: > > Fine just do it and release the code as Open Source! Speaking of which, anyone want a Lua binding? I reworked the code and it's more efficient than last time. Email me if you do (I don't have hosting - no cash, no job and no prospects). > The problem with the Ada community is that we tend to spend more time saying > that this and that is missing than to do the job. You noticed that too? I've brought this up before, but it get's drowned out in all the reposts of stuff from last months "Let's Market Ada to the Masses" thread. Wait! That means this message is a repost! :( > Who did most of the Perl or Python code out there ? Perl and Python programmers? Oh... :) > Now I agree that the Ada community is small, lot smaller than the Python, Perl > or Java ones... So we just need to work harder :) And we have the luck to have > Ada on our side with its great productivity ! But we're programmers! Being lazy is in our nature. ;) Sorry. I always remember an old School teacher who said programmers where lazy. Her point was that programmers don't like to do unnecessary work. That's sort of what this thread is about.