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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Desirability of C++
Date: 2000/05/01
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In article <87og6qnld8.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>,
  Florian Weimer <fw-usenet@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> wrote:
> dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:
>
> I wonder if there's a single piece of non-trivial free software
> written in Ada which is not Ada-related.  Can you name one?

That's *exactly* the situation that I think needs to be changed. When
(if) I get my thesis done and OpenToken in stable shape, I'll be looking
for just such a project to take on. But in the meantime, it would be
nice to see someone else make moves along this line.

If I was looking to start one today, I think I'd go for a web browser. I
know there are tons of them, but there aren't that many out there that
are fully open source. Even fewer are cross-platform and GPL. The only
one I know of is Lynx.

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T.E.D.

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