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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-10 16:59:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!enews.sgi.com!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshub1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au!news1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au.POSTED!not-for-mail From: raj Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: re: Why is ada dead? Message-ID: <6k5nktkkuh6m90rrjgp4okmdsd0d6pfvi2@4ax.com> References: <3B460DA9.C2965042@ix.netcom.com> <9ff447f2.0107061757.34ca0723@posting.google.com> <3B475678.C582735D@worldnet.att.net> <3b478165_3@news3.prserv.net> <3b48d207_1@news3.prserv.net> <3B490751.38523577@worldnet.att.net> <9icg1p$kpi$1@nh.pace.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:59:49 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.164.144.2 X-Complaints-To: abuse@optushome.com.au X-Trace: news1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au 994809589 203.164.144.2 (Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:59:49 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:59:49 EST Organization: @Home Network Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9759 Date: 2001-07-10T23:59:49+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 09 Jul 2001 15:54:57 GMT, Ted Dennison wrote: >The other is to start developing lots of "cool" stuff with it. *That*, I think >we can do. Right now the best example of this that I know of is GVD >(http://libre.act-europe.fr/gvd/ ), but perhaps I'm a werido for thinking >debuggers are cool. :-) The Ada community ( like the lisp comunity: yes I do know about Paul Graham's 49 million dollar sale to Yahoo ..) seem better at debating the benefits of the language than actually writing commercially visible software .