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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,78a1af350f4cf4b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" Subject: Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Date: 2000/03/10 Message-ID: <8aakvv$cpv2@ftp.kvaerner.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 595643830 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38A989B7.2D4D6B56@maths.unine.ch> <38AC41FE.73461614@earthlink.net> <952459361.11185.0.nnrp-12.d4e5bde1@news.demon.co.uk> <8a5mmt$pio$2@news.btv.ibm.com> <8a5ms7$aai1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <8a5t40$n84$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2120.0 Organization: Kv�rner Group IT Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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,