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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1479b753518e2325 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular? Date: 1999/01/22 Message-ID: <78a342$ses$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 435644130 References: <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com> <36a78291.328470@news.pacbell.net> X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x16.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Jan 22 14:48:38 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36a78291.328470@news.pacbell.net>, tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote: > >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.. > As Robert Leif says "the way to make Ada popular is to make Ada > programmers visibly rich". Perhaps if you can write a web server in > Ada that is so obviously an improvement on any existing web server > that everyone wants it, that would also be good advertising. But if > it was so much better that people would even pay a bunch, *that* would > really be convincing. IMHO > I don't think a web server is a good example. Outdoing Apache is a tall order, and Apache is free. Even if you did manage to make a feature or two better, they'd have Apache fixed to mimic it within a week. I think you'd need to pick a niche that isn't being well filled right now. An open-sourced installshield type application springs readily to mind. An open-source proxy server w/ demand dialer for hooking home LAN's to the internet is another good possibility. That's a balooning market, and it'd be a good way to showcase Ada's speed. T.E.D. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own