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Subject: Re: Ada BIND was: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls
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"Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message
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> While I'm a believer in Ada, I don't think that coding an app up in Ada
> somehow makes it *better* just by that very fact. Nobody buys programs
> just because it says "Ada Inside" - so its important to add something
> more. Given limited resources, it would seem more productive to come up
> with something new and innovative rather than take existing apps and
> recode them in Ada just to have an Ada version.
>

While I generally agree with this sentiment, it is thinking "like" this that
would prevent someone from doing something crazy like

"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.  This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready.  I'd like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things)."

Which is how Linus announced he was starting Linux.

Of course I have seen hundres of similarly bold announcements by software
people over the years that go nowhere.

I think us bitter old men are just too cynical sometimes....It comes from
experience of course...but who knows..maybe this Ada bind thing will really
get completed and be good....