Re: What to Do?

["Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>]

Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.BSF.4.21.0101011632350.9452-100000@shell5.ba.best.com...
> On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, David Kristola wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 9:08:47 -0800, Ehud Lamm wrote
> > (in message <92qdnn$jfg$1@news.huji.ac.il>):
> >
> > > I think that if we succeed in making the Ada community larger, by
attracting
> > > hobbyists, the "real world" situation will improve too. (I still
haven't
> > > found the time to write "Why should Hackers Love Ada?" If anyone wnats
to
> > > write it, feel free...)
>
> I'm glad "hacker" is not being used in a pejorative sense!
>

I thought I'd share the first paragraph I wrote (ages ago), since it may
best give the flavor of what I have in mind:

                   Why should Hackers love Ada?

  Ada is one of the lagnauges that hackers fear and loath. The view as
descirbed
  by ESR in the Jargon file is that Ada is an "elephantine bulk." But this
is
  an elephant that can do tricks, and that has the mentallity of a
super-smart,
  cat-in-the-hat. I am not going to try to influence anyone into using Ada
  nor am I going to try to refute the claims that the language is large or
that
  it was designed by a committee. Though false, these are more interesting
  historically than technically. I am just going to list several features of
  the language, that I think can appeal to anyone who likes to hack, and
that
  are worth checking out. I leave it to the readers to make their own minds.


Ehud