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: <78a7ap$8b3@news.kvaerner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 78a342$ses$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
dennison@telepath.com wrote :
>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 don't think so. Programming in C and Ada is so different that Ada apps should
be able to handle certain problems which C programs tend to have e.g. stack
overflow, etc. Ada should be able to do very well in string processing
intensive tasks unless apache has an optimized string library. [ strXXX()
routines tend to visit all character positions in order to do their work. That
is not good for performance.].
>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.
That sounds nice.
A good DNS server is also needed. Especially one that is not as terminally
stupid as the versions of bind I have seen appears to be.
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 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen [this message]
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 ` 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 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-01-21 0:00 ` bill_1
1999-01-22 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
1999-01-22 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 ` 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 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
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 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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