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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Ada lacks support greatly
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:28:31 +0100
Date: 2007-12-30T21:28:31+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763yggc5s.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20071228160413.8d072132.coolzone@it.dk

* Rico Secada:

> I think that is the main problem with Ada nowadays. It lacks proper
> support on multiple platforms. Unless something is going to be done
> about this, it will never reach a wider usage in the Open Source
> community.

I don't think portability is a major concern for open source projects.
If it runs on GNU/Linux (i386 and maybe amd64), it's usually good
enough.

It's generally very hard to tell what makes a project successful.  I
used to think that the cathedral-like development style favored by
AdaCore was part of the problem, but there still are some similarly
structured projects which have got quite a following.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-30 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-19 13:14 Ada OS Peter Hermann
2007-11-19 18:37 ` tmoran
2007-11-20 10:13   ` Peter Hermann
2007-11-21 20:11 ` Lucretia
2007-11-22 10:13   ` Peter Hermann
2007-11-22 14:50     ` Lucretia
2007-11-23  2:08       ` anon
2007-11-23  9:46         ` Peter Hermann
2007-11-23 13:02           ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-11-24  0:34           ` Brian May
2007-11-27  1:34       ` Randy Brukardt
2007-12-20  7:52 ` I. Levashew
2007-12-20  7:54 ` I. Levashew
2007-12-21 11:29   ` anon
2007-12-24  5:41     ` Paul
2007-12-26 19:49       ` OpenBSD and Ada (was: Re: Ada OS) Tero Koskinen
2007-12-28 15:04         ` Ada lacks support greatly (was: OpenBSD and Ada) Rico Secada
2007-12-30 20:28           ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2007-12-29  0:39         ` OpenBSD and Ada Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-26 20:56       ` Ada OS I. Levashew
2007-12-26 21:56         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-26 22:48         ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-12-27  9:26           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-12-28  1:28           ` I. Levashew
2008-01-08 16:07     ` Thomas Preymesser
2008-01-08 18:04       ` anon
2008-01-08 19:19         ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-01-08 20:58         ` Simon Wright
2008-01-08 22:34           ` anon
2008-01-09  1:15             ` Jeffrey Creem
2008-01-09 19:32               ` anon
2008-01-09 20:50                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-01-09 21:15             ` Simon Wright
2008-01-08 21:27       ` Simon Wright
2008-01-08 22:19         ` Simon Wright
2008-01-09  8:04         ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
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