Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects'

["Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>]

Ted Dennison
>If device drivers written in Ada started popping up, folks might start
>to take notice of that odd "Ada" language...


I do not agree. Drivers are close to invisible unless it is something
spectacular like the tcp/ip system. The point is to create an application or
similar that is important to the end-user (much like Zope is the reason for the
rise of Python). That will give Ada due attention. It might be a bit late to
write an spreadsheet or wordprocessor since both the KDE and Gnome projects
already have functional applications for this use. However there might be other
applications which may be useful. E.g. a powerpoint clone or a project
management tool.

It will also help if those who have the means put even more effort into
creating Ada infrastructure. This will lower the resistance towards using ada.

The Ada com stuff at http://www.adapower.com/ for windows is potentially a very
visible project which may lead to a acceptance of Ada. Especially when students
get to use it for free. They will want to use this later when they get out in
industry.

I think it is useful to have available interfaces to filetypes like excel,
dbase and xml. It might be useful for those who want to create these to have a
look at what has been done with this in e.g. gnumeric (the Gnome spreadsheet
application). In the ideal world the interfaces would be dynamically loadable
libraries which would be loaded on demand. If such an interface was successful
it might be extended to general database access. Or perhaps odbc would cover
this?

Other worthwile projects is an interface to either (Gnome) bonobo or
equivalent. Universal com functionality would be nice.

Greetings,



Greetings,