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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT,WEIRD_PORT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,54c513170bafd693 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Subject: Re: Application in Ada (was Desirability of C++) Date: 2000/05/02 Message-ID: <8eonmh$e4q$1@wanadoo.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 618605443 References: <01HW.B4BFC2820005B06B08A24140@news.pacbell.net> <87euk0$c93$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <01HW.B4C1346100072D2408A24140@news.pacbell.net> <949867976.281549@the-rowan.albatross.co.nz> <8766v93w66.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <38E8C81A.AA62CF4C@HiWAAY.net> <38F796B2.A99A206A@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <38F7A27A.4F7729FA@raytheon.com> <8eclae$afj$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <4F706057FEE2A550.BF5FE19AE279EFCD.A55706B3F9D07043@lp.airnews.net> <8eiv08$820$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net> <390D001C.7433140B@netwood.net> <390D58F9.7CC64B85@maths.unine.ch> <390D97DC.241E7CCD@netwood.net> <8ekfoo$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu> <87og6qnld8.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <8ekn33$rim$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8em8mc$evd$2@wanadoo.fr> <8emo1d$21p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr X-Trace: wanadoo.fr 957342225 14490 193.250.164.130 (3 May 2000 08:23:45 GMT) Organization: Adalog X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 May 2000 08:23:45 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-03T08:23:45+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison a �crit dans le message : 8emo1d$21p$1@nnrp1.deja.com... > One of the subgoals of an OpenSource project done in Ada should be to > (incedentally) win some mindshare for Ada by attracting hackers to the > project. Even if there is *no* C alternative, I suspect the project will > constantly have to be fighting off attmpts to "port" it to C by > conservative C hackers. Having an acceptable C alternative already > working would make the situation much more tenuous. However I firmly > believe the day will come when we are ready to fight and win that battle > too. Good point, but multi-tasking can be a plus for an X-server, and something that could keep C-hackers from translating... > But more importantly for me, I have no use for an X server. Perhaps you > have some insight that tells you that my misgivings above are total BS, > or that I'm missing some important fact that makes the whole thing > feasable. By all means give it a shot if you think it'd work. After all, > *I* thought FAX machines were an incredibly dumb idea... > Typically, it's useful for all people (like me) who carry a laptop under WinXX, and connect it at work to a network of Unix machines. Sometimes you want to use the laptop as a terminal... It can also be useful to some projects that use the X interface even under WinXX, because they want portability of the user interface, and the project started on Unix machines (of course I KNOW there are alternatives, I'm just saying that such projects exist - Escadre (http://escadre.cad.etca.fr:1815) is a big example). -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (Rosen.Adalog@wanadoo.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://pro.wanadoo.fr/adalog