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From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.no>
Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular?
Date: 1999/01/22
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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,