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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a761e7b998e88184 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada, open source software and Linux Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 19:13:40 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <8k5i0d.sn3.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> References: <1110208935.468255.37180@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1110222679 18541 195.25.228.57 (7 Mar 2005 19:11:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:11:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: fr, en In-Reply-To: <1110208935.468255.37180@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8826 Date: 2005-03-07T19:13:40+01:00 List-Id: fmdf@tiscali.it a écrit : > Here comes where I ask for some help from you all. I also want to write > something much closer to the interests of the audience, that is Linux > OS and Open Source Programming. Many of them are used to write mostly > C/C++ open source programs (when not using some very high level > language like Python and Perl) and I would like to make them understand > that (1) Ada is not just another more or less useless programming > language, (2) that it is worth investing some time to learn and use it > and (3) that Ada can be a very powerful tool for open source > programming especially where a lot of people is involved. I am > particularly afraid of many C/C++ programmers won't bother even to hear > about Ada or any other language. > You can get the slides of my presentation about Ada and free software at http://www.ada-france.org/IMG/pdf/presentation-jpr-5.pdf And while we are talking about good news... Ada got papers in two french journals recently: "Login" (february and march issues) and "Linux Magazine" (march issue). -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr