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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.99.152.87 with SMTP id l23mr925705pgo.83.1486255054710; Sat, 04 Feb 2017 16:37:34 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.20.145 with SMTP id d17mr261029ote.18.1486255054672; Sat, 04 Feb 2017 16:37:34 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer01.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer03.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!r185no1310717ita.0!news-out.google.com!15ni7833itm.0!nntp.google.com!r185no1324245ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 16:37:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1533893062.503569684.598007.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2600:8807:a6c0:5:351e:7f15:98e0:7afd; posting-account=b0GbAwoAAABU2b-bFrG729pG1wqiQ19f NNTP-Posting-Host: 2600:8807:a6c0:5:351e:7f15:98e0:7afd References: <5f542dff-8dd0-49b8-8228-3ccc8248c57d@googlegroups.com> <276a2153-b81f-4e19-9615-530e798e5798@googlegroups.com> <1533893062.503569684.598007.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <735b077e-32a5-4e09-bf36-0a58fd9d85ac@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: C# new features (v.7) From: Scott Loyd Injection-Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:37:34 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 1914 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2002674588 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:33253 Date: 2017-02-04T16:37:34-08:00 List-Id: On Friday, December 16, 2016 at 3:34:15 AM UTC-5, Luke A. Guest wrote: > Wesley Pan wrote: >=20 > >=20 > > What Ada really needs is to be used in fancy/cool/fun applications (e.g= . games).=20 >=20 > I couldn't agree more. SDLAda is a start there. I'm currently working on an Ada port of Handmade Hero (handmadehero.org) bu= t it's slow going. I'm a relative newbie to Ada and doing it in my spare ti= me. Hoping to have something reasonably impressive to show off soon but wh= o knows. I'll report back here if/when I reach that point. Cheers!