From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.no>
Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular?
Date: 1999/01/22
Date: 1999-01-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78a6fc$8b2@news.kvaerner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com
bill_1@nospam.com wrote in message <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com>...
>
>lets face it. Ada is not used much in commerical sector.
>
>What can be done to improve the situation?
> [snipped]
>
>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..
That is a good idea. An other one would be a router written in ada. There is a
ton of other useful things that could be written in Ada.
E.g. a portable terminal handling library (termcap/curses replacement).
Something that knows that <csi> and <esc>[ is supposed to be equivalent would
be useful.
An interface to dbase or excel files would be an incentive to use Ada. A
general database library interface would be useful.
A interface to serial ports would be useful in many environments.
>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.
A managed Ada source repository which contain only the new and useful stuff
would also be nice.
The problem with ada is that almost everybody are fully occupied with work.
There is no time to write that fancy free software.
Greetings,
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-21 0:00 how to make Ada more popular? bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-21 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-23 0:00 ` micro_ada
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen [this message]
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-24 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Lack of Ada Windows books (was: " Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Kees Serier
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-25 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-30 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-01-27 0:00 ` kna
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Making ADA More Popular Michael Garrett
1999-01-27 0:00 ` joel
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
1999-01-28 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` how to make Ada more popular? Donald Duck
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
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