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From: "Kees Serier" <K.Serier@cadans.nl>
Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular?
Date: 1999/01/25
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bill_1@nospam.com wrote in message <78f734$eup@drn.newsguy.com>...
>
>another easy way to make Ada more popular, is to have the gnat rpm
>package be part of packages that are installed on linux system
>when one installs the OS first time.
>
>right now, when I install a Linux system first time, (and offcourse
>select the packages to install), onces the system is up, if I want
>to compile a C program, all I have to do is type gcc.
>
>with ada, it is little more work, since ada is not installed as part
>of the system installation.
>
>(it is only recently that gnat distribution in form of RPM's made
>available, this is very good thing. Now we need to write to
>red hat, caldera, suse, debian etc.. and ask them to have gnat rpm
                                         ^^^^^^^
Debian has GNAT with there distribution for quite some time !!!

>as part of the languages that gets installed when Linux is installed).
>
>Bill.