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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1479b753518e2325,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: bill_1@nospam.com Subject: how to make Ada more popular? Date: 1999/01/21 Message-ID: <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 435271740 Organization: Newsguy News Service [http://www.newsguy.com] Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: lets face it. Ada is not used much in commerical sector. What can be done to improve the situation? A very busy area these days is software development in the internet: Web servers and Application servers. These type of applications are very large and complex and muli-tasking as a general rule, although some web servers do not use tasks (threads) yet (such as Apache for example). It seems to me, this is an area Ada could well proof itself outside the military. Apache is written in C. and is very good and popular webServer, and is free offcourse. Application servers are even more complex, and need to work closely with a webserver as a rule. Now, if a web server can be written in Ada, and GPL'ed and become famouse for quality, speed, etc.., this is one way to make Ada more known, as many pepole and ISP's, will download it, with source, and install it, use it, etc.. We hear allot about how great Ada is, and it it is. But there is little GPL'ed applications in Ada that is large and known. other than GNAT, what else is there? Open source Ada applications is one way to make Ada more popular. But if you look at all the applications being written for Linux/Unix nowadays, they are all being written in C and C++. Having something as a web server written in Ada, would help improve this. offcourse some would say, why even bother write a webserver when there are many free ones out there (all written in C or C++, and even Java as in the case of NetDynamics). I think the reason will be to help make Ada more popular in the commerical sector, that would be the main reason. silly idea? what do you think? Bill.