Re: Popularizing Ada

["Rob Veenker" <veenker@xs4all.nl>]

I always wondered why Ada is not present on the many Linux distributions.
(At least I couldn't find them)
Most of the GNU-ware is present; why not Ada ? (GNAT)
Maybe its too obvious ?

Regards,

Rob Veenker


Philip Brooke <pbrooke@accurate-automation.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:954225C62FE0593D.EF35660594E8371A.AC5524F68736C0E9@lp.airnews.net...
> I don't know whether someone has already suggested this:
>
> A great many people access the Programming pages of About.com (formerly
> miningco).  C++, Java, and Delphi are all there.  Where is Ada?  I know
that
> it would take a dedicated person to act as an editor for an Ada section
> there.  This probably would mean either someone with a great deal of extra
> time or someone whose employer thinks that his time on that project is
worth
> while.
>
> Any other ideas on the subject?
>
>         Regards,
>
>         Philip Brooke
>         pbrooke@N0SPAM.accurate-automation.com
>
>
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>
> Kent Paul Dolan <xanthian@well.com> wrote in message
> news:7jr7c3$rc3$1@its.hooked.net...
> > In a thread "Subject:  Re:  When will Ada big moment arrive?
> > what is missing?  " to which my offline posting composition
> > methods will never add a strand, Marin David Condic
> > <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Remember that C was around for a long time before it
> > > caught on with any "mass market" appeal.
> >
> > My impression was that it caught on via BSD Unix and cheap
> > software for college use, and by appeal to the hacker
> > mentality.
> >
> > > The more we do with Ada and the more useful tools we make
> > > available, the more likely it is Ada will appeal to the
> > > masses.
> >
> > I'd rephrase that as "the more fun code we put in the way of
> > anyone who wants to mess with it, the quicker Ada will gain
> > a growing cadre of fanatic users".
> >
> > > Hey!  Anybody out there want to write the next Great
> > > American Operating System in Ada?  I'm game!  Linux, watch
> > > out!  :-)
> >
> > I think a more fruitful approach would be to rewrite and
> > enhance something like Nethack, in Ada, perhaps as an open
> > source code multi-university grad school project for a
> > "cooperative programming in the large" class.
> >
> > The idea here being sort of like the TV ads where the mom
> > doesn't tell the kids the juice drink is good for them, just
> > lets them find out it is fun to drink.
> >
> > Elsewhere, MDC also wrote:
> >
> > > So is there some other figure of speech we could abuse in
> > > this context?
> >
> > Several ideas come immediately to mind:
> >
> > "The Ada cure for the common OS"?
> > "The AdaOS that restores the ozone layer"?
> > "The AdaOS cure for cancer"?
> > "The Ada that saves the ecOSystem"?  <-- my vote
> > "AdaOS for peace in our lifetime"?
> > "The OS in Ada that ate Manhattan"?
> > "Ada95OS: last millennium's answer for this millennium's problems"?
> >
> > I could go on, but I discovered a previously unnoticed
> > lingering fragment of a conscience at about this point.
> >
> > ===== random archive quality quote =====
> > "Only the Objectivists have an answer to all our problems, and it's
> wrong."
> >   -- Hans Huettel
> > --
> > Kent Paul Dolan, <xanthian@well.com>, <xanthian@aztec.asu.edu>
> >
>
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