From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 21:41:54 +0200
Date: 2014-07-06T21:41:54+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2dip94t.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c6182b24-3b9d-4a73-b6a2-792e72e67d23@googlegroups.com
Dan'l Miller writes:
> On Sunday, July 6, 2014 1:03:38 PM UTC-5, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>> Dan'l Miller writes:
>> > The path to Ada popularity: More special sauces for more niche markets
>> > that cause wounds in other languages' Achilles' heals to fester.
>>
>> Agreed. Show us the code, then. That's what Linus Torvalds keeps
>> saying, and he is right about that.
>>
>> The folks at AdaCore have had a number of exceedingly brilliant ideas
>> and implemented them in Ada; now AWS and PolyORB are both killer
>> libraries that go way beyond any other language can offer. If you have
>> a similar idea, please make it happen! And if you don't, please
>> contribute to a project with similar potential. One project with a lot
>> of potential is the SPARK-hardened DNS server, Ironsides; see
>> http://ironsides.martincarlisle.com/
>
> Hmmmm. That sounds more like a "put up or shut up" shutdown of an
> individual who dares to speak than like "Hey, let's as a community
> brainstorm what an even better Ada world would look like", which is
> what was intended.
I'd rather be more positive: don't put up, don't shut up; do something
about it and then be loud about what you've done :)
--
Ludovic Brenta.
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-06 15:19 Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum Dan'l Miller
2014-07-06 16:25 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-07-06 17:18 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-06 18:03 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-07-06 19:03 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-06 19:41 ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2014-07-07 7:03 ` Tero Koskinen
2014-07-06 22:15 ` Brad Moore
2014-07-07 13:14 ` Peter Chapin
2014-07-07 14:27 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-09 15:01 ` Brad Moore
2014-07-10 7:42 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-07-10 13:56 ` Peter Chapin
2014-07-10 18:18 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-10 18:30 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-11 4:55 ` theanalogmachine
2014-07-11 11:56 ` G.B.
2014-07-07 8:37 ` Brian Drummond
2014-07-06 19:41 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-08 17:25 ` Shark8
2014-07-08 23:03 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-08 23:30 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-09 0:29 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-09 2:30 ` Shark8
2014-07-27 2:01 ` David Thompson
2014-07-27 20:19 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-28 3:53 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-07 0:17 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-07 1:17 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-07 6:11 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-07 6:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-07 9:04 ` Brian Drummond
2014-07-07 13:33 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-07 16:11 ` Brian Drummond
2014-07-10 19:49 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2014-07-10 20:19 ` Shark8
2014-07-10 21:39 ` björn lundin
2014-07-10 22:54 ` Shark8
2014-07-11 7:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-11 7:37 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-07-11 9:32 ` björn lundin
2014-07-12 21:43 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2014-07-13 8:52 ` björn lundin
2014-07-11 0:16 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-11 0:40 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-11 1:15 ` Shark8
2014-07-11 7:03 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-08 20:10 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-07-10 13:30 ` Gerd
2014-07-10 15:14 ` Shark8
2014-07-10 19:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-11 2:17 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-07-11 0:39 ` gvdschoot
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