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: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular? Date: 1999/01/22 Message-ID: <78a7ap$8b3@news.kvaerner.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 435664496 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com> <36a78291.328470@news.pacbell.net> <78a342$ses$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Organization: Kv�rner Oil & Gas Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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,