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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
Subject: Re: Desirability of C++
Date: 2000/04/18
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Alfred Hilscher wrote
>"Tarjei T. Jensen" wrote:
>> If I owned the company I would offer students prizes if they contributed
useful
>> software to the Ada community. The idea would be to organize small/medium
>> projects which universities could use and then offer prizes for the best
entry.
>> Prizes could be a small grant/computer hardware or some other desirables.
>> Perhaps also a contribution to the university, department or library. This
>> would depend on their situation. In some parts of the world, just getting
used
>
>I think the Ada-Deutschland group do such things, but it seems to me
>that this has no success.

The point is that the effort must have a target. E.g. there must be a problem
to solve. The solution must be of value to someone. Only then is it worthwhile
to give a reward.


>That is exactly what I think. "Ada" should be omnipresent. But there is
>a vicious circle:
>a) There are no Ada articles, so people do not know about Ada.
>b) People do not know about Ada, so magazines are not interessted in
>Ada-articles.
>c) goto a)


Not true. Magazines need articles. An article featuring Ada has a good chance
of being published if it is of interest.

What we need articles for is to make it clear to those who might use Ada that
it is a viable solution.


Greetings,