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: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-06 14:17:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!news.worldonline.be!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) Date: 06 Apr 2004 23:20:14 +0200 Organization: Worldonline Belgium Sender: lbrenta@deuteronomy Message-ID: <87smfgvm5t.fsf@insalien.org> References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> <406EB6D2.8030801@noplace.com> <87d66pyw1g.fsf@insalien.org> <406EEC35.7040109@noplace.com> <874qs0zvy1.fsf@insalien.org> <40714C98.90601@noplace.com> <1073gv22t969q5a@corp.supernews.com> <40729B9D.30906@noplace.com> <1076000ef5oj06f@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 83-134-238-181.lindthout.goplus.fastdsl.tiscali.be Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.worldonline.be 1081286270 22745 83.134.238.181 (6 Apr 2004 21:17:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldonline.be NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:17:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6783 Date: 2004-04-06T23:20:14+02:00 List-Id: "Randy Brukardt" writes: > As far as the rest of your troll, your conclusion is that Ada needs a $100 > million markover -- which is clearly not going to happen. So why do you > bother hanging out here and waste the rest of our time with it? You must do > it just to get attention - I'd suggest that kidnapping yourself would be > more effective (a la Audrey Seiler). Better - write free software in Ada. Advertise that you can get good software out the door quickly, thanks to Ada's superiority. Show that Ada programs are inherently safer and more maintainable than programs in any other language. Increase the awareness that there are lots of good libraries out there that provide as much leverage as Java or C++. GNU/Linux became popular because computer science students were exposed to it. It is time now to expose Ada to these people, who in years to come will make decisions. Make sure they at least know about Ada and never choose XYZ out of sheer ignorance. You may think that writing proprietary software helps spread the word. It doesn't. Even high-profile proprietary apps do very little to advertise the tools they use. The more Ada is used in life-critical apps, the more the crows thinks Ada is a special-purpose language. By writing free, general-purpose software for PCs and Macs, you can dispel this myth. -- Ludovic Brenta.