Re: Ada magazine

[Bob Wells #402 <wel@EUROCONTROL.DE>]

Kevin Weise <weisek@SOURCE.ASSET.COM> writes ....
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> called "Ada Letters", and is published by the ACM SIGAda.  If you want
> something flashier, with slick glossy covers & cool graphics, I would
> recommend that people begin submitting more articles to Embedded
> Systems, PCWeek, etc.  They have been known to publish articles
> favorable to Ada.

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What about if instead of "diving in at the deep end" and trying to come
up with a full magazines worth of Ada every month, we see if we can start
up a regular section in magazines like Embedded Systems, Defence
Electronics, PC Magazine and even Byte?

Like Kevin said above, these magazines are known to have published
articles favourable to Ada. (Why wouldn't they, after all it means they
get more people reading their mag!)

If we started submitting articles to such "mainstream, available just about
everywhere" magazines then we should be able to put Ada "in the face" of
many C/C++, FORTRAN, COBOL, etc. people. (Why, what was that Hortense? Did
you say Trojan Horse? Now really!   (-:   )

I'm sure that many people would be interested in such articles as "Using of
the new features of Ada 95 to correctly implement .........." (insert
favourite OO pradigm/construction/method here).

Imagine what could happen if all these people "clunking along" using C++
to try and implement certain OO constructs saw the elegance and ease of
the Ada 95 version!

Imagine all those people finding that a free Ada compiler was available
via ftp! (Why we might even get a Windoze port for GNAT out of it?)

Imagine having Ada visible to management reading such glossies every
month and not just when a magazine decides to run their bi-yearly special
Ada issue!

Imagine the feedback we would get from people looking at Ada 95 from
outside? Such alternative viewpoints are, IMHO, extremely useful, especially
when you have been looking at something "from the inside" for too long!

As a suggestion, why not pick a magazine and then possibly reprint an
article from Ada Strategies or Ada Letters when there was nothing
available? We could have someone from c.l.a possibly in charge of
submissions. When it was geting close to put the mag to bed, if there
was nothing available then they could "plead" (-:   , via c.l.a, for
suggetsions or submissions.

G'day Ralph Crafts, what do you think of this idea?

G'day Ed Seidowitz, has your favourite "article example" "the bank accounts"
been updated for Ada 95 yet?

What about as an introduction article we use the article about the
Ada vs. Ada 95 differences that .... wrote? (Sorry having a brain fart
here, was it John Barnes who wrote such an article?)

Any further ideas? David Weller what say you?

Happy New Year everyone!

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