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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-12 10:22:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!cert.uni-stuttgart.de!news.enyo.de!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:22:28 +0200 Organization: Enyo -- not your organization Message-ID: <87ads8sugb.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deneb.enyo.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: cygnus.enyo.de 1018632149 14054 212.9.189.171 (12 Apr 2002 17:22:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@enyo.de NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Apr 2002 17:22:29 GMT Cancel-Lock: sha1:5sBJIB0MjPlNG3UJURrAepVFEw0= Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22436 Date: 2002-04-12T17:22:29+00:00 List-Id: Ingo Marks writes: > - Who continues Ada compiler support in the future? Now we have some kind > companies who provide good Ada compilers (commercial and for free). But > someday they could say: "There is no more demand for commercial Ada so we > have decided to stop further Ada support." If there is no commercial demand (and no demand in the Free Software community either), then you are not using Ada. What's the problem? > I remember earlier years when the press said that Unix would be on the way > to die surely and it would merely be a matter of years when Unix will be > replaced by Windows completely. A large problem in the UNIX community was (and still is) vendor fragmentation. There are at least three proprietary general-purpose UNIX implementations which are used widely. We have seen a lot of convergence, but there are still problems. I hope this is not the way ahead of Ada! > MS realized the success of Java What "success of Java" are you talking about? Hardly anybody is using Java in areas it was originally marketed for. > Here I see a chance for Ada to become more popular. Scripting languages like Perl and PHP encourage a development model which is mostly incompatible with Ada. I don't think many scripting language enthusiasts can be converted to Ada.