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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b7260fedb136ec19 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Rob Veenker" Subject: Re: Popularizing Ada Date: 1999/06/18 Message-ID: <7ke4as$ggr$1@news1.xs4all.nl>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 491161268 References: <7jr7c3$rc3$1@its.hooked.net> <954225C62FE0593D.EF35660594E8371A.AC5524F68736C0E9@lp.airnews.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl X-Trace: news1.xs4all.nl 929731740 16923 194.109.131.5 (18 Jun 1999 18:49:00 GMT) Organization: XS4ALL Internet BV X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jun 1999 18:49:00 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-06-18T18:49:00+00:00 List-Id: I always wondered why Ada is not present on the many Linux distributions. (At least I couldn't find them) Most of the GNU-ware is present; why not Ada ? (GNAT) Maybe its too obvious ? Regards, Rob Veenker Philip Brooke wrote in message news:954225C62FE0593D.EF35660594E8371A.AC5524F68736C0E9@lp.airnews.net... > I don't know whether someone has already suggested this: > > A great many people access the Programming pages of About.com (formerly > miningco). C++, Java, and Delphi are all there. Where is Ada? I know that > it would take a dedicated person to act as an editor for an Ada section > there. This probably would mean either someone with a great deal of extra > time or someone whose employer thinks that his time on that project is worth > while. > > Any other ideas on the subject? > > Regards, > > Philip Brooke > pbrooke@N0SPAM.accurate-automation.com > > > ====================================================== > > Kent Paul Dolan wrote in message > news:7jr7c3$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 > > 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, , > > > >